Speeches That Changed the World

by Collins, Owen; Collins, Owen; Young, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780664221492
• ISBN10: 0664221491
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Presbyterian Pub Corp

Summary

From Moses' delivery of the Ten Commandments to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" address in Washington, Speeches That Changed the World contains the inspiring words of the world's greatest orators.

The defining moments of three thousand years of history are brought alive through the spoken words of the great leaders, religious and literary figures, politicians, and pioneering men and women who have shaped our world. Ideal as a reference tool, study companion for public speakers and students, or simply as a fascinating journey into the past, this memorable book captures the drama of history in the making.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Andrew Young
Part I: The Ancients
The Ten Commandments (second millennium BC)	3	(3)
Moses
`The danger in teaching...' (479 BC)	6	(1)
Confucius
`They were worthy of Athens' (431 BC)	7	(8)
Pericles
Socrates' Apology (399 BC)	15	(6)
Socrates
The Beatitudes (AD 34)	21	(1)
Jesus Christ
The Sermon on the Mount (AD 34)	22	(7)
Jesus Christ
`I made my journey...unto Damascus' (AD 50s)	29	(2)
Paul
`Dig this foundation of lowlines deep in thee' (AD 408)	31	(8)
Augustine
Part II: The Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
`I had a voice from God to help me' (1431)	39	(1)
Joan of Arc
`I neither can nor will recant anything' (1521)	40	(5)
Martin Luther
`I dye in the true catholyke fayth' (1553)	45	(3)
John Dudley
The Sermon at Martin Luther's Funeral (1546)	48	(11)
Johann Bugenhagen Pomeranus
Cranmer's Last Words (1556)	59	(3)
Thomas Cranmer
`I have the heart of a king' (1588)	62	(1)
Elizabeth I
`We shall be as a city upon a hill' (1630)	63	(3)
John Winthrop
On Liberty (1645)	66	(7)
John Winthrop
Part III: The Eighteenth Century
`The quiet enjoyment of your Religion and Liberties' (1701)	73	(2)
King William III
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)	75	(21)
Jonathan Edwards
`Ye must be born again' (1747)	96	(15)
John Wesley
The Stamp Act (1766)	111	(4)
William Pitt
`For who has despised the day of small things?' (1770)	115	(20)
George Whitfield
Conciliation with America (1775)	135	(3)
Edmund Burke
`Give me liberty or give me death' (1775)	138	(4)
Patrick Henry
Commerce between Master and Slave (1782)	142	(2)
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington Prevents the Revolt of his Officers (1783)	144	(4)
`God is no respecter of persons' (1786)	148	(12)
Jupiter Hammon
First Inaugural Address (1789)	160	(5)
George Washington
On the Death of Marie Antoinette (1793)	165	(1)
Edmund Burke
Republican Frenchmen (1794)	166	(4)
Maximilien Robespierre
`Cultivate peace and harmony with all' (1796)	170	(9)
George Washington
Part IV: The Nineteenth Century
`Let us pursue our own Federal and Republican principles' (1800)	179	(5)
Thomas Jefferson
`I shall need the favor of that Being...' (1805)	184	(7)
Thomas Jefferson
Farewell to the Old Guard (1814)	191	(1)
Napoleon Bonaparte
`Here am I calling for justice to Ireland' (1836)	192	(4)
Daniel O'Connell
`Virtue in rages and patches' (1842)	196	(5)
Charles Dickens
The Declaration of Sentiments (1848)	201	(7)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
`Ain't I A Woman?' (1851)	208	(1)
Sojourner Truth
`Man no longer believes in the divine right of force and fraud' (1851)	209	(18)
E. L. Rose
`What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?' (1852)	227	(6)
Frederick Douglass
Inaugural Address (1853)	233	(11)
Franklin Pierce
Prosperity to the Hospital for Sick Children (1858)	244	(7)
Charles Dickens
A Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1860)	251	(4)
Frederick Douglass
First Inaugural Address (1861)	255	(11)
Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address (1863)	266	(1)
Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address (1865)	267	(3)
Abraham Lincoln
Speech on Reconstruction (1865)	270	(5)
Abraham Lincoln
The Sermon at Abraham Lincoln's Funeral (1865)	275	(11)
Phineas D. Gurley
Political Action and the Working Class (1871)	286	(4)
Karl Marx
`And the truth shall make you free' (1871)	290	(50)
Victoria C. Woodhall
On Women's Right to Vote (1873)	340	(2)
Susan B. Anthony
In Memory of Thomas Paine (1877)	342	(2)
Walt Whitman
Pleasant Reminiscences Concerning Literary Folk (1877)	344	(6)
Mark Twain
`Looking Glass is Dead' (1877)	350	(1)
Chief Joseph
The New South (1886)	351	(12)
Henry W. Grady
Appeal to the Women of America (1888)	363	(18)
Josephine E. Butler
Part V: The Twentieth Century
`If women had the vote' (1908)	381	(3)
Emmeline Pankhurst
`Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good' (1922)	384	(3)
Mahatma Gandhi
`The annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!' (1939)	387	(1)
Adolf Hitler
`We shall defend our island whatever the cost' (1940)	388	(11)
Winston Churchill
`I have a Dream' (1963)	399	(5)
Martin Luther King
`An ideal for which I am prepared to die' (1964)	404	(4)
Nelson Mandela
We are concerned about the poor all over the world (1968)	408	(3)
Coretta Scott King
Christianity is Giving (1977)	411	(8)
Mother Teresa
The Foreign Policy of Great Britain (1979)	419	(10)
Margaret Thatcher
`I address you on behalf of the unborn child' (1995)	429	(4)
Mother Teresa
`Give voice to women everywhere whose words go unnoticed' (1995)	433	(8)
Hillary R. Clinton
Acknowledgements	441