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Abstract: 50 Speeches That Made The Modern World is a celebration of the most influential and thought-provoking speeches that have shaped the world we live in. With comprehensive, chronological coverage of speeches from the 20th and 21st centuries, taken from all corners of the globe.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Emmeline Pankhurst : 'The laws that men have made' (24 March 1908)
• 2. Vladimir Ilich Lenin : 'To the workers, everything; to the toilers, everything!' (30 August 1918)
• 3. Mahatma Gandhi : 'Why do we want to offer this non-cooperation?' (12 August 1920)
• 4. Benito Mussolini : 'We must win the peace' (25 June 1923)
• 5. Franklin D Roosevelt : 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' (4 March 1933)
• 6. La Pasionaria : 'They shall not pass!' (19 July 1936)
• 7. Edward VIII : 'I lay down my burden' (11 December 1936)
• 8. Neville Chamberlain : 'This country is now at war with Germany' (3 September 1939)
• 9. Winston Churchill : 'We shall fight on the beaches' (4 June 1940)
• 10. Joseph Stalin : 'The issue is one of life and death for the Soviet state' (3 July 1941)
• 11. Joseph Goebbels : 'Let the storm break loose' (18 February 1943)
• 12. Heinrich Himmler : 'I am talking about ... the extermination of the Jewish people' (4 October 1943)
• 13. Charles de Gaulle : 'Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred! But Paris liberated!' (25 August 1944)
• 14. Ho Chi Minh : 'Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country' (2 September 1945)
• 15. David Ben-Gurion : 'We dedicate today this Road of Valour' (12 December 1948)
• 16. Albert Einstein : 'Security through national armament is ... a disastrous illusion' (19 February 1950)
• 17. Nikita Khrushchev : 'The cult of the individual and its harmful consequences' (25 February 1956)
• 18. Anthony Eden : 'This is a time for action' (2 November 1956)

• 19. Dag Hammarskjöld : 'Without recognition of human rights we shall never have peace' (10 April 1957)
• 20. Harold Macmillan : 'Most of our people have never had it so good' (20 July 1957)
• 21. Patrice Lumumba : 'An honest, loyal, strong, popular government' (23 June 1960)
• 22. Ernesto 'Che' Guevara : 'To be a revolutionary you have first to have a revolution' (19 August 1960)
• 23. John F Kennedy : 'Ich bin ein Berliner' (26 June 1963)
• 24. Martin Luther King : 'I have a dream' (28 August 1963)
• 25. Malcolm X : 'The ballot or the bullet' (3 April 1964)
• 26. Betty Friedan : 'Hostility between the sexes has never been worse' (January 1969)
• 27. Edward Heath : 'A Europe which is free, democratic, safe and happy' (2 January 1973)
• 28. Richard M Nixon : 'There can be no whitewash at the White House' (30 April 1973)
• 29. Yasser Arafat : 'I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun' (13 November 1974)
• 30. Margaret Thatcher : 'The lady's not for turning' (10 October 1980)
• 31. Ronald Reagan : 'The aggressive impulses of an evil empire' (8 March 1983)
• 32. Desmond Tutu : 'Apartheid's final solution' (11 December 1984)
• 33. Ronald Reagan : 'Tear down this wall!' (12 June 1987)
• 34. Václav Havel : 'We live in a contaminated moral environment' (1 January 1990)
• 35. Nelson Mandela : 'On this day of my release' (11 February 1990)
• 36. Mary Fisher : 'AIDS virus is not a political creature' (19 August 1992)
• 37. Elizabeth II : 'It has turned out to be an annus horribilis' (24 November 1992)
• 38. Benazir Bhutto : 'The ethos of Islam is equality, equality between the sexes' (4 September 1995)
• 39. Bill Clinton : 'I have sinned' (11 September 1998)
• 40. George W Bush : 'Today, our nation saw evil' (11 September 2001)
• 41. Saddam Hussein : 'Iraq will be victorious' (20 March 2003)
• 42. Osama bin Laden : 'Our acts are reaction to your own acts' (15 April 2004)
• 43. Steve Jobs : 'You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart' (12 June 2005)
• 44. Barack Obama : 'Heroism is here, in the hearts of so many of our fellow citizens' (12 January 2011)
• 45. Aung San Suu Kyi : 'My country today stands at the start of a journey' (21 June 2012)
• 46. Malala Yousafzai : 'They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed' (12 July 2013)
• 47. Christine Lagarde : 'Reducing excessive inequality is not just morally and politically correct, but it is good economics' (17 June 2015)
• 48. Hilary Benn : 'We never have and we never should walk by on the other side of the road' (2 December 2015)
• 49. Hillary Clinton : 'You voted for our tomorrow to be better than our yesterday' (15 March 2016)
• 50. Theresa May : 'As we leave the European Union, we will forge a bold new positive role for ourselves in the world' (13 July 2016)
• Acknowledgements
• Sources.

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Contributors:

Burner, Andrew , editor

Bailey, Nancy E. M. , contributor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Alternate Titles:

Subtitle on cover: Famous speeches from the women's rights to human rights

Subjects:

Speeches, addresses, etc. — 20th century

Speeches, addresses, etc. — 21st century

1900-2099

Speeches, addresses, etc.

General Notes:

Description based on title page of print version.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (55 entries) : 14 images.

Call Numbers:

PN6121 .F537 2016eb

ISBNs:

9781786842329 (electronic version)
1473640946 (print) [Invalid]
9781473640948 (print) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

974965120

Other Control Numbers:

gtp00566864 (source: CaBNVSL)
chambstmmw2016 (source: Credo)
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