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Inaugural Address, 1961
John F. Kennedy; Key message: 'Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.'
The Perils of Indifference, 1999
Elie Wiesel; Key message: 'Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred.'
The Ballot or the Bullet, 1964
Malcolm X; Key message: 'It's liberty or death. It's freedom for everybody, or freedom for nobody.'
Liberty or Death, 1792
Maximilien Robespierre; Key message: Advocated for the end of the monarchy and the establishment of a French Republic.
Their Finest Hour, 1940
Winston Churchill; Key message: 'Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.''
I Have a Dream, 1963
Martin Luther King Jr.; Key message: 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.'
The Gettysburg Address, 1863
Abraham Lincoln; Key quote: '...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.'
Ain't I a Woman?, 1851
Sojourner Truth; Key message: Highlights injustices faced by African American women and argues for gender and racial equality.
Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat, 1940
Winston Churchill; Key message: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'
The Iron Curtain Speech, 1946
Winston Churchill; Key message: 'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.'
Give me Liberty, or give me Death!, 1775
Patrick Henry; Key message: 'I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!'
The Atlantic Charter, 1941
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill; Key message: Set out a vision for a post-war world, one of peace, security, and freedom.
The Four Freedoms, 1941
Franklin D. Roosevelt; Key message: Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
The New Frontier, 1960
John F. Kennedy; Key message: 'The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges.'
Tryst with Destiny, 1947
Jawaharlal Nehru; Key message: 'At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.'
The Third Philippic, 342 BCE
Demosthenes; Key message: Encouraged Athenians to rise against the Macedonian army and the growing power of Philip II of Macedonia.
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