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Greta Thunberg
categories: Acceptance Speech, Speeches
Acceptance Speech at the 2019 Goldene Kamera Awards - March 30, 2019
March 30, 2019
Thunberg was awarded The Special Prize for Climate Protection at the 2019 Goldene Kamera Awards in Berlin, Germany. I dedicate this award to the people fighting to protect the Hambach Forest. And to activists everywhere who are fighting to keep the fossil fuels in the ground. We live in a strange world. Where all the united science tells us that we are about 11 years away from setting off an irreversible chain reaction way beyond human control that will probably be the end of our civilization as we know it. […]
Greta Thunberg
Speeches
Address at World Economic Forum: Our House Is On Fire - Jan 25, 2019
January 25, 2019
Our house is on fire. I am here to say, our house is on fire. According to the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], we are less than 12 years away from not being able to undo our mistakes. In that time, unprecedented changes in all aspects of society need to have taken place, including a reduction of our CO2 emissions by at least 50%. And please note that those numbers do not include the aspect of equity, which is absolutely necessary to make the Paris agreement work on a […]
Marianne Williamson
categories: Announcement Speech, Campaign Speech, Speeches
Presidential Campaign Announcement - Jan. 29, 2019
January 28, 2019
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'm so eager to speak with you tonight and so grateful that you came. I want to start out by telling you a little something about my childhood. My parents were married over 50 years. They loved each other. They were a good marriage. But I think, and looking back today, we might have thought of them as a bit of an odd couple. My mother came not from a wealthy family, but from a well-to-do […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
Peonage in the United States - August 1907
August 1, 1907
[1907] PEONAGE IN THE UNITED STATES THE CONVICT LEASE SYSTEM AND THE CHAIN GANGS In the chain gangs and convict lease camps of the South to-day are thousands of coloured people, men, women, and children, who are enduring a bondage, in some respects more cruel and more crushing than that from which their parents were emancipated forty years ago. Under this modern regime of slavery thousands of coloured people, frequently upon trumped-up charges or for offences which in a civilised community would hardly land them in gaol, are thrown into […]
Mary Church Terrell
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Appeal for Animal Day - 29 April 1902
April 29, 1902
[Appeal for Animal Day] Washington D.C. April 29 1902/ To the Honorable Board of Trustees :Let Let me respectfully call your attention to the necessity of setting apart just one day in the year, on which the children of our Public Schools shall be especially urged to treat all animals kindly and be taught what cruelty to animals means. When I was a member of the School Board a few years ago, I urged that such a day be set aside and called Animal Day. The proposition was endorsed by […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
A Plea for the White South by a Colored Woman - 1905
January 1, 1905
[1905] A PLEA FOR THE WHITE SOUTH BY A COLOURED WOMAN The indifference manifested by the whole American nation to the obstacles to progress which now confront the best white people in the South is as amazing as it is painful. Occasionally one hears about the cruel yoke of bondage under which coloured people in the South groan at the present time. It is safe to assert that few if any words either spoken or written on this subject are untrue, since it is well nigh impossible to exaggerate the […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
A Colored Woman's Visit to the Countess of Warwick - 1904
January 1, 1904
[ca. 1904] A Colored Woman’s Visit to the Countess of Warwick. At last the day had come. The article modifying day in this first sentence should be printed in italics. and underlined, for it was a red letter day in my life. For years I had been reading about this famous English woman, first as a great beauty, at whose feet the flower of the British aristocracy as well as royalty felt proud to bow and then as a philanthropist, consecrating her time, her beauty and her high position in […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
The Duty of the National Association of Colored Women to the Race - Aug. 14-16, 1899
August 14, 1899
aug 14-15-16-1899 Chicago, Ill The Duty of the National Association of Colored Women to the Race. Address of Mary Church Terrell, Pres. of National Association of Colored Women. The National Association of Colored Women has at this its second Convention every reason to rejoice and be exceeding glad. From its birth in July 1896 tell the present moment its growth has been steady and its march ever onward and upward to the goal of its ambition. An infant of but three years is this organization, over which I have had […]
Mary Church Terrell
Speeches
The Second Convention of the National Association of Colored Women - 2 Sept. 1899
September 2, 1899
The bolded text below was underlined in the original transcript. [Sept 2, 1899] The Second Convention of the National Association of Colored Women The second Convention of Colored Women, recently held in Chicago was a magnificent success from beginning to end. In the first place it was more largely attended than any previous meeting we have held. There were 145 delegates in all, and they were as earnest, well-poised, and intelligent a body of women as have ever met together. All the great dailies of Chicago without a single exception […]
Ann Coulter
Speeches
Speech at the Oxford Union – Feb. 12, 2018
February 12, 2018
Thank you. Can you all hear me? I don't want you to miss any of my invective. Everyone can hear. I was just talking [skip in audio] no one no one asked me what the title of my speech was going to be, and I thought I had a really good one two weeks ago. I wanted it to be "Donald Trump: America's Greatest President," because I figured if he keeps his promises he will be America's greatest president and also I kind of assume everything you guys hate about […]