Speeches that Shaped the Modern World is a collection of the most important speeches given since 1900. There are speeches about power and about equality. There are speeches of hate and those of hope, of compassion and sorrow, politics and diplomacy, war and peace, freedom and justice. What they have in common is the rhetoric - the power of persuasion.
These speeches carry the hopes and regrets of our modern world, and become even more powerful and poignant with the passage of time.
Author(s): Alan J Whiticker
Edition: Concise Edition
Publisher: New Holland Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 288
City: Sydney
Introduction: the power of persuasion
The Old World, 1901-1910
The Duke of Cornwall and York, "The Opening of the Australian Parliament", 1901
Mary Church Terrell, "Being Coloured in the Nation's Capital", 1906
Emmeline Pankhurst, "Freedom or Death", 1913
Patrick Pearse, "Ireland Unfree Will Never Be At Peace", 1915
Woodrow Wilson, "War Message", 1917
Vladimir Iych Lenin, "Constructing the Socialist Order", 1919
Between the Wars, 1920-1939
Margaret Sanger, "The Children"s Era", 1925
Franklin D Roosevelt, "The Only Thing We Have To Fear is Fear Itself", 1933
Josef V Stalin, "Election Speech", 1937
Adolf Hitler, "The Jewish Question", 1939
Neville Chamberlain, "A Hint of War", 1939
War, Peace and Freedom, 1940-1949
Winston Churchill, "Our Finest Hour", 1940
Charles Lindbergh, "Neutrality and War", 1941
Cardinal Clement von Galen, Against Aktion T4, 1941
Mohandas K Gandhi, "Quit India", 1942
General George S Patton, "D-Day Address", 1944
Golda Meir, "The Struggle for a Jewish State", 1948
The Cold War, 1950-1959
Joseph R McCarthy, "Wheeling Speech", 1950
Margaret Chase Smith, "Declaration of Conscience, 1950
Douglas MacArthur, "Old Soldiers Never Die", 1951
Bertrand Russell, "Russell-Einstein Manifesto", 1955
Nikita Khrushchev, "The Cult of the Individual", 1956
Revolution, 1960-1969
Harold MacMillan, "The Wind of Change", 1960
John F Kennedy, "The Cuban Missile Crisis", 1962
Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream", 1963
Robert F Kennedy, "Announcement of Martin Luther King"s Death", 1968
Edward "Teddy" Kennedy, "Eulogy for Robert F Kennedy", 1968
Absolute Power, 1970-1979
John Kerry, "Against the War in Vietnam", 1971
Richard M Nixon, "Farewell to the White House", 1974
Gough Whitlam, “Well May We Say, God Save the Queen", 1975
Anwar el-Sadat, "Peace With Justice", 1977
Jimmy Carter, "A Crisis of Confidence", 1979
The Big Chill, 1980-1989
Indira Gandhi, "True Liberation of Women", 1980
Margaret Thatcher, "The Falklands War", 1982
Jesse Jackson, "Keep Hope Alive", 1988
Ryan White, "I Have AIDS", 1988
The Dawn of Enlightenment, 1990-1999
Mikhail Gorbachev, "Dissolving the Soviet Union", 1991
Nelson Mandela, "Release from Prison", 1994
Earl Spencer, "Eulogy for Diana, Princess of Wales", 1997
Tony Blair, "Address to the Irish Parliament", 1998
Elie Wiesel, "The Perils of Indifference", 1999
The New Millennium, 2000-
George W Bush, "A Great People Has Been Moved", 2001
Arundhati Roy, "Peace and the New Corporate Liberation Theology", 2004
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