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the original selma march was in 1965, and they protested for black americans to have the right to vote. Obama's speech was for the 50th anniversary of the selma marches. he spoke about racial equality and how his hero, john lewis (a rights activist) had woken up one morning 50 years ago and made his way to brown chapel. heroics were not on his mind.  A day like this was not on his mind.  Young folks with bedrolls and backpacks were milling about.  Veterans of the movement trained newcomers in the tactics of non-violence -- the right way to protect yourself when attacked.  A doctor described what tear gas does to the body, while marchers scribbled down instructions for contacting their loved ones.  The air was thick with doubt, anticipation and fear.  And they comforted themselves with the final verse of the final hymn they sung:

no matter what may be the test, god will take care of you; lean weary against his breast, god will take care of you.

It was not a clash of armies, but a clash of wills; a contest to determine the true meaning of America.  And because of men and women like John Lewis, Joseph Lowery, Hosea Williams, Amelia Boynton, Diane Nash, Ralph Abernathy, C.T. Vivian, Andrew Young, Fred Shuttlesworth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and so many others, the idea of a just America and a fair America, an inclusive America, and a generous America -- that idea ultimately triumphed.

https://speakola.com/ideas/barack-obama-50-selma-2015

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Barack Obama: ‘It was not a clash of armies, but a clash of wills’, 50 year anniversary of Selma march - 2015

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7 March 2015, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama, USA It is a rare honor in this life to follow one of your heroes.  And John Lewis is one of my heroes. Now, I have to imagine that when a younger John Lewis woke up that morning 50 years ago and made his way to Brown Chapel, heroics wer

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The speaker is Viola Davidson she said this speech at Variety's Power of Women. The topic was hunger and the grow she has joined. Her main argument was that she was hungry as a child, living for meal to meal. Never know when the next meal would come. she was talking about how she would do anything for food. She stole, she would look for food in bins and made friends with kid who got three meals a day for food. I think that this is a big issue everywhere around the would. Many people can't get food. They endure hunger on a daily basses. It needs to be eradicated. She keep them listening to her with her emotional words. She mainly used pathos, ethos in her speech tell them how bad it is and what she went thorough. She used logos and them end listing off facts and statistics.

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this speech was written for the class of 2020. it was to encourage them and make sure they feel appreciated. he talks about how difficult graduating in a global pandemic must have been and how many expectations were not met. he says 'your graduation passes into your adulthood,' and i think its important for the class of 2020/2021 to remember that they have still achieved a very important milestone even if it wasnt anything like any other year. i think this speech is really motivational and encouraging and i completely agree with everything he says in this speech. 'then were gonna have to do it together" he says and that is a sentence that everyone should keep in mind.

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17 May 2020

Hi, everybody. Aniyah, thank you for that beautiful introduction. I could not be prouder of everything you've done in your time with the Obama Foundation.

And of course, I couldn't be prouder of all of you in the graduating Class of 2020 - as well as the teachers, and the coaches, and most of all, parents and family who guided have you along the way.

Now graduating is a big achievement under any circumstances. Some of you have had to overcome serious obstacles along the way, whether it was an illness, or a parent losing a job, or living in a neighborhood where people too often count you out. Along with the usual challenges of growing up, all of you have had to deal with the added pressures of social media, reports of school shootings, and the specter of climate change. And then, just as you're about to celebrate having made it through, just as you've been looking forward to proms and senior nights, graduation ceremonies - and, let's face it, a whole bunch of parties - the world is turned upside down by a global pandemic. And as much as I'm sure you love your parents, I'll bet that being stuck at home with them and playing board games or watching Tiger King on TV is not exactly how you envisioned the last few months of your senior year.

Now I'll be honest with you - the disappointments of missing a live graduation - those will pass pretty quick. I don't remember much from my own high school graduation. I know that not having to sit there and listen to a commencement speaker isn't all that bad - mine usually go on way too long. Also, not that many people look great in those caps, especially if you have big ears like me. And you'll have plenty of time to catch up with your friends once the immediate public health crisis is over.

But what remains true is that your graduation marks your passage into adulthood - the time when you begin to take charge of your own life. It's when you get to decide what's important to you: the kind of career you want to pursue. Who you want to build a family with. The values you want to live by. And given the current state of the world, that may be kind of scary.

If you'd planned on going away for college, getting dropped off at campus in the fall - that's no longer a given. If you were planning to work while going to school, finding that first job is going to be tougher. Even families that are relatively well-off are dealing with massive uncertainty. Those who were struggling before - they're hanging on by a thread.

All of which means that you're going to have to grow up faster than some generations. This pandemic has shaken up the status quo and laid bare a lot of our country's deep-seated problems - from massive economic inequality to ongoing racial disparities to a lack of basic health care for people who need it. It's woken a lot of young people up to the fact that the old ways of doing things just don't work; that it doesn't matter how much money you make if everyone around you is hungry and sick; and that our society and our democracy only work when we think not just about ourselves, but about each other.

It's also pulled the curtain back on another hard truth, something that we all have to eventually accept once our childhood comes to an end. All those adults that you used to think were in charge and knew what they were doing? Turns out that they don't have all the answers. A lot of them aren't even asking the right questions. So, if the world's going to get better, it going to be up to you.

That realization may be kind of intimidating. But I hope it's also inspiring. With all the challenges this country faces right now, nobody can tell you "no, you're too young to understand" or "this is how it's always been done." Because with so much uncertainty, with everything suddenly up for grabs, this is your generation's world to shape.

Since I'm one of the old guys, I won't tell you what to do with this power that rests in your hands. But I'll leave you with three quick pieces of advice.

First, don't be afraid. America's gone through tough times before - slavery, civil war, famine, disease, the Great Depression and 9/11. And each time we came out stronger, usually because a new generation, young people like you, learned from past mistakes and figured out how to make things better.

Second, do what you think is right. Doing what feels good, what's convenient, what's easy - that's how little kids think. Unfortunately, a lot of so-called grown-ups, including some with fancy titles and important jobs, still think that way - which is why things are so screwed up.

I hope that instead, you decide to ground yourself in values that last, like honesty, hard work, responsibility, fairness, generosity, respect for others. You won't get it right every time, you'll make mistakes like we all do. But if you listen to the truth that's inside yourself, even when it's hard, even when its inconvenient, people will notice. They'll gravitate towards you. And you'll be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.

And finally, build a community. No one does big things by themselves. Right now, when people are scared, it's easy to be cynical and say let me just look out for myself, or my family, or people who look or think or pray like me. But if we're going to get through these difficult times; if we're going to create a world where everybody has the opportunity to find a job, and afford college; if we're going to save the environment and defeat future pandemics, then we're going to have to do it together. So be alive to one another's struggles. Stand up for one another's rights. Leave behind all the old ways of thinking that divide us - sexism, racial prejudice, status, greed - and set the world on a different path.

When you need help, Michelle and I have made it the mission of our Foundation to give young people like you the skills and support to lead in your own communities, and to connect you with other young leaders around the country and around the globe.

But the truth is that you don't need us to tell you what to do.

Because in so many ways, you've already started to lead.

Congratulations, Class of 2020. Keep making us proud.

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Barack Obama: "This is your generation's world to shape", Virtual Commencement speech - 2020 - Speakola

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17 May 2020 Hi, everybody. Aniyah, thank you for that beautiful introduction. I could not be prouder of everything you've done in your time with the Obama Foundation.

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Bili-Lawrence O'Donnell: 'The original sin of this country is that we invaders shot and murdered our way across the land killing every Native American that we could', The Last Word, 'Dakota' - 2016

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Bili-Lawrence O'Donnell: 'The original sin of this country is that we invaders shot and murdered our way across the land killing every Native American that we could', The Last Word, 'Dakota' - 2016

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24 August 2016, The Last Word, NBC nightly news show, USA

In this speech Lawrence O’Donnell argues in support of native Americans. He states that Germany after World War 2 was treated better then native Americans.  He states how recent the invasion of America was and how the native Americans were pushed off their land and murdered simply because the native Americans were on the land that they wanted to live on. When they stopped murdering the native Americans, they treated them poorly by violating all treaties. In this speech he talks about a pipeline being built from North Dakota to Illinois, where hundreds of people are gathering and camping in protest, the leaders being native Americans. He states how ironic and cruel it would be if the Judge allows the pipeline construction, leaving the native Americans to be arrested on there own land.

I completely agree with what Lawrence O'Donnell is saying. The passion and effort in his voice is truly inspiring. I agree because the Standing Rock Sioux reservation is sacred land for native Americans who have already had so much taken away from them.

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Dakota means friend...friendly. The people who gave that name to the Dakotas have, sadly, never been treated as friends. The people whose language was used to name the Dakotas and Minnesota, Iowa, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Massachusetts and other states, the Native American tribes, the people who were here before us... long before us, have never been treated as friends. They have been treated as enemies..more harshly than any other enemy. In any of this countrys' wars. After all of our major wars we signed peace treaties and live by those treaties. After world war II when we made peace with Germany we then did everything we possibly could to rebuild Germany. No Native American tribe has ever been treated as well as we treated Germans after World War II.

The original sin of this country is that we invaders shot and murdered our way across the land killing every Native American that we could, and making treaties with the rest. This country was founded on genocide before the word genocide was invented. Before there was a War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague. When we finally stopped actively killing Native Americans for the crime of living here before us, we then proceeded to violate every treaty we made with the Tribes. Every. Single. Treaty. We piled crime on top of crime against a people whose offense against us was simply that they lived where we wanted to live. We don't feel the guilt of the crimes because we pretend they happened a very long time ago, in ancient history. And we actively suppress the memories of those crimes.. but there are people alive today whose grandparents were in the business of killing the Native Americans. That's how recent these crimes are.

Every once in a while there is a painful and morally embarrassing reminder, as there is this week in North Dakota near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation where hundreds of people have gathered and camped out in opposition to an interstate pipeline being built from North Dakota to Illinois. The protest in being led by this countrys' original environmentalists. Native Americans. For hundreds of years they were our only environmentalists. The only people who thought that land and rivers should be preserved in their natural state. The only people who thought a mountain or a prairie or a river could be a sacred place.

Yesterday a federal judge heard arguments from the tribes against the federal governments approval of the pipeline and said he will deliver his decision on whether the pipeline can proceed next month. There are now over ninety tribes gathered in protest of that pipeline. That protest will surely continue even if the judge allows construction to proceed. And so we face the prospect next month of the descendants of the first people to ever set foot on that land,.. being arrested by the descendants of the invaders who seized that land. Arrested for trespassing. That we still have Native Americans left in this country to be arrested for trespassing on their own land is testament, not to the mercy of the genocidal invaders who seized and occupied their land, but to the stunning strength and the five hundred years of endurance and the undying dignity of the people who were here long before us. The people who have always known; what is truly sacred in this world.

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Lawrence O'Donnell: 'The original sin of this country is that we invaders shot and murdered our way across the land killing every Native American that we could', The Last Word, 'Dakota' - 2016 - Speakola

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24 August 2016, The Last Word, NBC nightly news show, USA Dakota means friend...friendly. The people who gave that name to the Dakotas have, sadly, never been treated as friends. The people whose language was used to name the Dakotas and Minnesota, Iowa, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Massachusetts and othe

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Dom-Angela Davis: "History cannot be deleted like web pages", Women's March - 2017 Angela Davis 

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Dom-Angela Davis: "History cannot be deleted like web pages", Women's March - 2017 Angela Davis 

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Angela Davis spoke about many issues in her speech, but the main two themes were justice and equality for everyone and also resistance to things like heteropatriarchy and the dying of cultures rising again. I think what inspired this speech was trump being voted as president because she said "the next 1,459 days of the Trump administration will be 1,459 days of resistance".Her main argument was that justice and equality are needed, people need to be equal, climate action is needed and that we need to resist Those who still defend the supremacy of white male hetero-patriarchy and we need to defend our vulnerable populations. My view on this topic was that everything she said i agreed with, this speech was made recently after trump was elected and she said things that kind of connected to trump.

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Angela Davis: “History cannot be deleted like web pages”, Women’s march - 2017

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Angela Davis: “History cannot be deleted like web pages”, Women’s march - 2017 — Speakola

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21 January 2017, Washington DC, USA At a challenging moment in our history, let us remind ourselves that we the hundreds of thousands, the millions of women, trans-people, men and youth who are here at the Women’s March, we represent the powerful forces of change that are determined to prevent th

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Noah-It's idiotic but that's how the NFL has handled their business Steve Kerr 

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Noah-It's idiotic but that's how the NFL has handled their business Steve Kerr 

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Steve Kerr spoke about the player in the NFL taking a knee during the American national anthem and how they were peacefully protesting about police brutality and how the president had said that they were disrespecting America and its military which they weren't, he also talked about how the NBA would have handled the situation a lot better and that the NFL was to harsh with there judgment.

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I think it's just typical of the NFL. They're just playing to their fanbase, and they're just basically trying to use the anthem as fake patriotism, nationalism, scaring people.

I'm proud to be in a league that understands patriotism in America is about free speech, about peacefully protesting. I think that our leadership in the NBA understands that when the NFL players were kneeling, they were kneeling to protest police brutality, to protest racial inequality. They're weren't disrespecting the flag or the military. But our president decided to make it about that and the NFL followed suit, pandered to their fan base, and created this hysteria.

It's kind of what's wrong with our country right now. People in high places are trying to divide us, divide loyalties, make this about the flag - as if the flag is something other than what it really is. It's a representation of what we're about, which is diversity, and peaceful protest, abilities, the right to free speech. So, it's really ironic, actually, what the NFL is doing.

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Steve Kerr: 'It's idiotic. But that's how the NFL has handled their business', response to national anthem policy - 2018 - Speakola

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24 May 2018, Houston, Texas, USA I think it's just typical of the NFL. They're just playing to their fanbase, and they're just basically trying to use the anthem as fake patriotism, nationalism, scaring people.

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Samuel Getachew: 'When did America fall so in love with the sound of gunshots?', Fourth of July poem, “Arms” - 2018 - Ollie

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Samuel Getachew: 'When did America fall so in love with the sound of gunshots?', Fourth of July poem, “Arms” - 2018 - Ollie

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Samuel Getachew's speech about gun laws and racism in America was posted on Twitter on February 20th, 2018.

This 15-year-old made a poem, which talked about the double standards of American citizens when it comes to gun laws and stereotypes. He spoke passionately about how a white man can hold a gun in public and be called a patriot, but if a black man does the same, they're considered a threat.

I think that Samuel is completely right when it comes to the racism is America when it comes to guns, and think that these double standards should be stopped

https://speakola.com/ideas/samual-g-fourth-of-july-guns-2018

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19 Februrary 2018 (uploaded to Twitter @EighteenX18) USA
This amazing 15 year old poet is Samuel Getachew. He is on Twitter @samuel_sgd
After Philando Castilles murderer was acquitted of all charges, I thought a lot about how he told officers he was permitted to carry a handgun

I thought a lot about the second amendment, how it doesn't seem to apply to everyone

How a black man with a gun is a threat

But a white man with a gun is a patriot.

Or how a black child playing with a toy gun in a park is thug

But a white man with an AK47 strapped to his belt in a grocery store is a patriot

Or how a black woman firing a warning shot to her abuser is a danger to society

But a white man with a gun showing up to the memorial of a victim of police brutality is a patriot

Or how a black child with some skittles is one of those asssholes that always gets away.

But a white man with a gun following a 17 year old around in his gated community is still a patriot

Still has the right to stand his ground

And I think that too often we forget that Trayvon Martin wasn't killed by the police,

Just by a white man with a gun on neighbourhood watch who fancied himself God for the evening

Thought he'd decide who lived, and who died that day

I find it fascinating

How the right to bear arms comes second only to free speech, but is eleven amendments above outlawing slavery.

I wonder when we got our priorities so out of order.

And as I sat at home on the Fourth of July

And listened to the sound of fireworks go on for hours.

I wondered to myself.

When did America fall so in love with the sound of gunshots?

That she wanted to hear them on her birthday.

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Samuel Getachew: 'When did America fall so in love with the sound of gunshots?', Fourth of July poem, "Arms" - 2018 - Speakola

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19 Februrary 2018 (uploaded to Twitter @EighteenX18) USA This amazing 15 year old poet is Samuel Getachew. He is on Twitter @samuel_sgd After Philando Castilles murderer was acquitted of all charges, I thought a lot about how he told officers he was permitted to carry a handgun I thought a lot about the second amendment, how it doesn't seem to apply to everyone How a black man with a gun is a threat But a white man with a gun is a patriot.

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This speech was spoke in Perth. Bruce Springsteen in fifty seconds managed to talk about five different equalities and human rights differences in our world. For example, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, wage equality, gender equality, and immigration rights. Although Bruce Springsteen did have a great message in supporting people, he did not have much of a contention. In my opinion Bruce Springsteen was great because he managed to support so many communities in only fifty seconds which is truly amazing.

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21 January 2017, Perth, Australia
The E Street Band is glad to be here in Western Australia. But we're a long way from home, and our hearts and spirits are with the hundreds of thousands of women and men that marched yesterday in every city in America and in Melbourne who rallied against hate and division and in support of tolerance, inclusion, reproductive rights, civil rights, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, the environment, wage equality, gender equality, healthcare, and immigrant rights. We stand with you. We are the new American resistance.

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Bruce Springsteen: 'We are the new American resistance!' Perth concert - 2017 - Speakola

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21 January 2017, Perth, Australia ​ ​ ​The E Street Band is glad to be here in Western Australia.

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Grace W - John Franklin Stephens: 'I am a man. See me as a human being, not a birth defect', United Nations - 2018

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Grace W - John Franklin Stephens: 'I am a man. See me as a human being, not a birth defect', United Nations - 2018

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This speech was given at the United Nations in 2018 by John Franklin. He spoke about how people with Down syndrome should be valued and treated with the same love and respect as everyone else. That they need to be educated and sometimes, helped.
John Franklin's main point was that a life with Down syndrome can be as exciting as any other.

I completely agree with John Franklin on this topic. We should never be looking at anyone and seeing them as a 'birth defect', whether they have Down syndrome or not. It is a small price to pay that we provide the assistance, education and support needed to help someone with Down syndrome have a life of exciting opportunities.

This speech was very engaging and persuasive. The first phrase immediately catches the audiences attention.
'I am a man. See me as a human being, not a birth defect'. Pathos is used here. It is very sad that someone would be called a 'birth defect'. This phrase makes the audience empathetic towards John Franklin and also engages them.
Because John Franklin is speaking from his own experiences and talking abut his life, the audience trusts him. This speech therefore uses logos.

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Good day.

My name is John Franklin Stephens. I am a man with Down Syndrome and my life is worth living.

When my body was first forming, when the first two cells were dividing, each of them had one extra chromosome. People like me tend to be a little shorter because our arms and legs are shorter. Our faces are a little bit flatter because our cheekbones and noses don't stick out from our faces as much.

All that adds up to a person who is a little bit more uncommon .. in my case uncommonly handsome.

Don't worry I am very accepting, very inclusive. I won't think less of you just because I have more chromosomes than you do.

I have been asked to tell you how to improve the lives of people with Down syndrome. The key is right there in my opening paragraph. It begins with 'I am a man.' See me as a human being, not a birth defect, not a syndrome. I don't need to be eradicated. I don't need to be cured. I need to be loved, valued, educated and, sometimes, helped.

What should that help be? Provide training to parents and babies as soon as possible. Provide medical care, eye exams and glasses. Send us to school with everyone else. Provide job training and coaches until we learn to work on our own. Most of all, expect competence, not failure. By the way, the cost to the rest of you of providing that help is the cost of a single cup of coffee per month.

What difference will inclusion, acceptance, and early intervention mean? Allow me to use my life as one example of what's possible. If it sounds like I'm bragging, it's because I am. I went to school with my neighbors; I was included in ordinary classes. The common kids and I learned from each other. I learned to fight for the right to be treated like everyone else. I have been to the White House twice, and I didn't have to jump the fence either time. I have had a lead role in a movie and a recurring role in an award-winning TV show, and my writings have been published all over the world. Last October, I spoke to the U.S. Senate. That testimony went viral. Over 160 million people have viewed it.

So, what is the point of all my bragging? Simply, that a life with Down syndrome can be as full and exciting as any other. My generation owes an awesome debt to organizations like the Lejeune Foundation and Special Olympics for freeing us from the prison of neglect.

I truly believe a world without people like me will be a poorer world, a colder world, a less happy world. To those who believe the world would be a better place without us, let me make three points.

First, we are a medical gift to society. Our extra chromosome makes us a blueprint for medical research in areas that include soft tissue cancer, heart disease, immune system disorders, and Alzheimer's disease.

Second, we are an unusually powerful source of happiness. A Harvard-based study has discovered that people with Down syndrome, their parents, their siblings, and people close to them are all happier than society at large.

Finally, we are the canary in the eugenics coal mine. Genomic research is not going to stop at screening for Down syndrome. We have an opportunity right now to slow down and think about the ethics of deciding that certain humans do not get a chance at life.

So, I have been a good guest. I have made you smile, maybe even laugh. Now, before I go, let me be Frank. How would the world react if a nation proclaimed that it would use genomic testing to make itself "Unpopular Ethnic Minority Free by 2030?" The U.N. has all a name for this - but we need not go there. Instead, let us pledge together to welcome diversity. Let us decide from this day forward to include, not exclude; educate, not isolate; and celebrate, not terminate. Thank you.

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15 March 2018, United Nations, New York City, USA Good day. My name is John Franklin Stephens. I am a man with Down Syndrome and my life is worth living. When my body was first forming, when the first two cells were dividing, each of them had one extra chromosome.

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Harry-Luke Beveridge: 'This is yours mate, you deserve it more than anyone', AFL Grand Final - 2016

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Harry-Luke Beveridge: 'This is yours mate, you deserve it more than anyone', AFL Grand Final - 2016

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This speech was directed for Bob Murphy who was that captain of the western bulldogs. With courage he and the Western bulldogs made it to the 2016 Grand final against the Sydney swans but unfortunately he got injured and was not able to play and both Luke Beveridge and Bob Murphy were very emotional. By the end of the game the Bulldogs ended up winning and Luke Beveridge put a medal around his neck and lifted up the trophie

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Vincent- Martin Luther King: 'Mrs. Parks is a fine Christian person'

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Vincent- Martin Luther King: 'Mrs. Parks is a fine Christian person'

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My friends, we are certainly very happy to see each of you out this evening. We are here this evening for serious business. We are here in a general sense because first and foremost we are American citizens and we are determined to apply our citizenship to the fullness of its meaning. We are here also because of our love for democracy, because of our deep-seated belief that democracy transformed from thin paper to thick action is the greatest form of government on earth.

But we are here in a specific sense, because of the bus situation in Montgomery. We are here because we are determined to get the situation corrected. This situation is not at all new. The problem has existed over endless years. For many years now Negroes in Montgomery and so many other areas have been inflicted with the paralysis of crippling fears on buses in our community. On so many occasions, Negroes have been intimidated and humiliated and impressed-oppressed-because of the sheer fact that they were Negroes. I don't have time this evening to go into the history of these numerous cases. Many of them now are lost in the thick fog of oblivion but at least one stands before us now with glaring dimensions.

Just the other day, just last Thursday to be exact, one of the finest citizens inMontgomery not one of the finest Negro citizens, but one of the finest citizens in Montgomery-was taken from a bus and carried to jail and because she refused to get up to give her seat to a white person. Now the press would have us believe that she refused to leave a reserved section for Negroes but I want you to know this evening that there is no reserved section. The law has never been clarified at that point. Now I think I speak with, with legal authority-not that I have any legal authority, but I think I speak with legal authority behind me -that the law, the ordinance, the city ordinance has never been totally clarified.

Mrs. Rosa Parks is a fine person. And, since it had to happen, I'm happy that it happened to a person like Mrs. Parks, for nobody can doubt the boundless outreach of her integrity. Nobody can doubt the height of her character nobody can doubt the depth of her Christian commitment and devotion to the teachings of Jesus. And I'm happy since it had to happen, it happened to a person that nobody can call a disturbing factor in the community. Mrs. Parks is a fine Christian person, unassuming, and yet there is integrity and character there. And just because she refused to get up, she was arrested.

And you know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. There comes a time.

We are here, we are here this evening because we're tired now. And I want to say that we are not here advocating violence. We have never done that. I want it to be known throughout Montgomery and throughout this nation that we are Christian people. We believe in the Christian religion. We believe in the teachings of Jesus. The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

And certainly, certainly, this is the glory of America, with all of its faults. This is the glory of our democracy. If we were incarcerated behind the iron curtains of a Communistic nation we couldn't do this. If we were dropped in the dungeon of a totalitarian regime we couldn't do this. But the great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right. My friends, don't let anybody make us feel that we are
to be compared in our actions with the Ku Klux Klan or with the White Citizens Council. There will be no crosses burned at any bus stops in Montgomery. There will be no white persons pulled out of their homes and taken out on some distant road and lynched for not cooperating. There will be nobody amid, among us who will stand up and defy the Constitution of this nation. We only assemble here because of our desire to see right exist. My friends, I want it to be known that we're going to work with grim and bold determination to gain justice on the buses in this city.

And we are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. If we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie. Love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I want to say that in all of our actions we must stick together. Unity is the great need of the hour, and if we are united we can get many of the things that we not only desire but which we justly deserve. And don't let anybody frighten you. We are not afraid of what we are doing because we are doing it within the law. There is never a time in our American democracy that we must ever think we're wrong when we protest. We reserve that right. When labor all over this nation came to see that it would be trampled over by capitalistic power, it was nothing wrong with labor getting together and organizing and
protesting for its rights.

We, the disinherited of this land, we who have been oppressed so long, are tired of going through the long night of captivity. And now we are reaching out for the daybreak of freedom and justice and equality. May I say to you my friends, as I come to a close, and just giving some idea of why we are assembled here, that we must keep-and I want to stress this, in all of our doings, in all of our deliberations here this evening and all of the week and while-whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love, love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith. There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

The Almighty God himself is not the only, not the, not the God just standing out saying through Hosea, "I love you, Israel." He's also the God that stands up before the nations and said: "Be still and know that I'm God, that if you don't obey me I will break the backbone of your power and slap you out of the orbits of your international and national relationships." Standing beside love is always justice, and we are only using the tools of justice. Not only are we using the tools of persuasion, but we've come to see that we've got to use the tools of coercion. Not only is this thing a process of education, but it is also a process of legislation.

As we stand and sit here this evening and as we prepare ourselves for what lies ahead, let us go out with a grim and bold determination that we are going to stick together. We are going to work together. Right here in Montgomery, when the history books are written in the future somebody will have to say, "There lived a race of people a black people, 'fleecy locks and black complexion', a people who had the moral courage to stand up for their rights. And thereby they injected a new meaning into the veins of history and of civilization." And we're gonna do that. God grant that we will do it before it is too late. As we proceed with our program let us think of these things.

But just before leaving I want to say this. I want to urge you. You have voted [for this boycott], and you have done it with a great deal of enthusiasm, and I want to express my appreciation to you, on behalf of everybody here. Now let us go out to stick together and stay with this thing until the end. Now it means sacrificing, yes, it means sacrificing at points. But there are some things that we've got to learn to sacrifice for. And we've got to come to the point that we are determined not to accept a lot of things that we have been accepting in the past.

So I'm urging you now. We have the facilities for you to get to your jobs, and we are putting, we have the cabs there at your service. Automobiles will be at your service, and don't be afraid to use up any of the gas. If you have it, if you are fortunate enough to have a little money, use it for a good cause. Now my automobile is gonna be in it, it has been in it, and I'm not concerned about how much gas I'm gonna use. I want to see this thing work. And we will not be content until oppression is wiped out of Montgomery, and really out of America. We won't be content until that is done. We are merely insisting on the dignity and worth of every human personality. And I don't stand here, I'm not arguing for any selfish person. I've never been on a bus in Montgomery. But I would be less than a Christian if I stood back and said, because I don't ride the bus, I don't have to ride a bus, that it doesn't concern me. I will not be content. I can hear a voice saying, "If you do it unto the least of these, my brother, you do it unto me."

And I won't rest; I will face intimidation, and everything else, along with these other stalwart fighters for democracy and for citizenship. We don't mind it, so long as justice comes out of it. And I've come to see now that as we struggle for our rights, maybe some of them will have to die. But somebody said, if a man doesn't have something that he'll die for, he isn't fit to live.
Preeminent MLK historian Dr Clayborne Carson, the man chosen by Coretta Scott King as the founding director of the Dr Martin Luther King Centre for Education and Research, was a guest on the podcast, talking about I Have a Dream and other speeches.

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Martin Luther King: 'Mrs. Parks is a fine Christian person, unassuming, and yet there is integrity and character there', Montgomery Bus Boycott - 1955 - Speakola

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5 December 1955, Holt Street Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, USA My friends, we are certainly very happy to see each of you out this evening. We are here this evening for serious business.

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Elena- Emma Watson: 'But my recent  research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word

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https://speakola.com/ideas/emma-watson-gender-equality-un-2015

This powerful speech was written and spoken by Emma Watson at the United nations headquarters back in 2014. She spoke thoroughly on the topic of feminism and gender equality. Her main argument was that women didn’t have the same rights that a man has and I 100% agree. But she also talked about breaking gender stereotypes. Emma Watson stated and I quote, ‘I am from Britain, and I think it is right I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decisions that will affect my life. I think it is right that socially, I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly, I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to see these rights.’ These rights are considered human rights and the fact that most women cannot have these is disappointing and unacceptable.

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Today we are launching a campaign called for HeForShe. I am reaching out to you because we need your help. We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved. This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN. We want to try to mobilize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change. And, we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible.

I was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women six months ago. And, the more I spoke about feminism, the more I realized that fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.

For the record, feminism by definition is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of political, economic and social equality of the sexes.

I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago. When I was 8, I was confused for being called bossy because I wanted to direct the plays that we would put on for our parents, but the boys were not. When at 14, I started to be sexualized by certain elements of the media. When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of sports teams because they didn't want to appear muscly. When at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings.

I decided that I was a feminist, and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Women are choosing not to identify as feminists. Apparently, I'm among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, and anti-men. Unattractive, even.

Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one? I am from Britain, and I think it is right I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decisions that will affect my life. I think it is right that socially, I am afforded the same respect as men.

But sadly, I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to see these rights. No country in the world can yet say that they achieved gender equality. These rights, I consider to be human rights, but I am one of the lucky ones.

My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn't love me less because I was born a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didn't assume that I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day. These influences were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I am today. They may not know it, but they are the inadvertent feminists that are changing the world today. We need more of those.

And if you still hate the word, it is not the word that is important. It's the idea and the ambition behind it, because not all women have received the same rights I have. In fact, statistically, very few have.

In 1997, Hillary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women's rights. Sadly, many of the things that she wanted to change are still true today. But what stood out for me the most was that less than thirty percent of the audience were male. How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?

Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue, too. Because to date, I've seen my father's role as a parent being valued less by society, despite my need of his presence as a child, as much as my mother's. I've seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help for fear it would make them less of a man. In fact, in the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20 to 49, eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease. I've seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don't have the benefits of equality, either.

We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes, but I can see that they are, and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence. If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won't feel compelled to be submissive. If men don't have to control, women won't have to be controlled.

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong. It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum, instead of two sets of opposing ideals. If we stop defining each other by what we are not, and start defining ourselves by who we are, we can all be freer, and this is what HeForShe is about. It's about freedom.

I want men to take up this mantle so that their daughters, sisters, and mothers can be free from prejudice, but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too, reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned, and in doing so, be a more true and complete version of themselves.

You might be thinking, "Who is this Harry Potter girl, and what is she doing speaking at the UN?" And, it's a really good question. I've been asking myself the same thing.

All I know is that I care about this problem, and I want to make it better. And, having seen what I've seen, and given the chance, I feel it is my responsibility to say something.

Statesman Edmund Burke said, "All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing."

In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt, I told myself firmly, "If not me, who? If not now, when?" If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you, I hope those words will be helpful. Because the reality is that if we do nothing, it will take seventy-five years, or for me to be nearly 100, before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work. 15.5 million girls will be married in the next 16 years as children. And at current rates, it won't be until 2086 before all rural African girls can have a secondary education.

If you believe in equality, you might be one of those inadvertent feminists that I spoke of earlier, and for this, I applaud you. We are struggling for a uniting word, but the good news is, we have a uniting movement. It is called HeForShe. I invite you to step forward, to be seen and to ask yourself, "If not me, who? If not now, when?"

Thank you very, very much.
Daomay Keo made this short film using the words of Emma Watson's speech

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Emma Watson: 'But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word', United Nations - 2014 - Speakola

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20 September, 2104, HeforShe campaign, United Nations HQ, NYC, USA Today we are launching a campaign called for HeForShe . I am reaching out to you because we need your help. We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved.

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Spencer - Michael O'Loughlin : We are bending towards justice

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Michael O'Loughlin: 'We are bending towards justice', Indigeonous Round, 2017

This speech given by a famous football player at and AFL live event. It is about racism in the sport of AFL and is encouraging people to stand up and challenge people to say something if they hear some one being racist.

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Kendra- Ashley Judd: Our pussies ain’t for grabbing, women’s march-2017

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Kendra- Ashley Judd: Our pussies ain’t for grabbing, women’s march-2017

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https://speakola.com/ideas/ashley-judd-womens-march-2017

This ‘#Nasty women’ poem was written by a teenager from Tennessee in 2016 and her name is Nina Mariah Donavan. Later in 2017 a women named Ashely Judd performed this poem at the women’s March in Washington DC, USA.
The issue that was being marched for was women’s rights, misogyny, sexual harassment/ assault.
Their main argument in this poem was how women in the US are treated very poorly to the point where they aren’t being paid the same wage as a man. This poem was also filled with points about how black women are then payed less than white women, and then Hispanic women are payed even less. It also had great points regarding to men still being influenced by the nazis of the past.

My personal view on this large topic is very strong, I couldn’t agree more with what was said In this poem. They talked about racism and the presence of modern day nazis, as well as sexual assault and harassment, and these are all topics that I have strong views on. The poem was written so well that it could incorporated many different points. I have been to a women’s March before but it’s sad to think that nothing has really changed in the last three years or so, as these points are still valid today.

This poem was already a engaging piece to read, but Ashely Judd made it that more captivating. She emphasised her words and made them loud and distinguished. This was pathos in another form as she made the audience feel empowered. She also had her facts right, so that meaning she used logos. And in a way she used ethos as well as she brought up great women in power. And when having all three persuasive devices used in a speech makes it that more persuasive to the audience.