Bill Gates Graduation Speech – March 2007
Bill Gates Graduation Speech President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially the graduates, I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this, “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.” I want to thank Harvard for this timely...
Denzel Washington – Graduation Speech, May 2011
Denzel Washington Graduation Speech, May 2011 Thank you. Thank you very much. I am obviously the most unorganized. Everyone else has nice boxes to bring their script up in; I just like kind of got it all messed up here put inside of a magazine so, in fact, I don’t even have it in the right order, let me get...
Whoopi Goldberg – Harvard Graduation Speech
Whoopi Goldberg Graduation Speech Transcript: 4 July 2011 Thanks, thank you. This is a pretty amazing situation here because I am some place I used to dream about when I was a kid. Now I was lucky as you all are and I know, Dean, that you thanked the parents but I want to turn the lights up on the parents one more...
Senator Barack Obama – Race Speech, March 2008
The following is a transcript of the remarks of Democratic Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, delivered March 18, 2008, in Philadelphia at the Constitution Center. In it, Obama addresses the role race has played in the presidential campaign. He also responds to criticism of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an unpaid campaign adviser and pastor at Obama's Chicago church. Wright has...
President Barack Obama – MLK 50th Anniversary "I have a Dream" – Speech
Speech given by President Barack Obama, 9:13PM BST 28 Aug 2013 To the King family, who have sacrificed and inspired so much, to President Clinton, President Carter, Vice President Biden, Jill, fellow Americans, five decades ago today, Americans came to this honored place to lay claim to a promise made at our founding. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that...
Bill Clinton – 50th Anniversary of MLK "I have a Dream" – Speech
Former President Bill Clinton delivered the following remarks at the “Let Freedom Ring” ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 2013 at the Lincoln Memorial. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Thank you.Mr. President, Mrs. Obama, President Carter, Vice President Biden, Dr. Biden, I want to thank my great friend Reverend Bernice King and the King...
Lyndon B. Johnson – Civil Rights Bill – Speech
US President Lyndon B. Johnson - Remarks upon Signing the Civil Rights Bill (July 2, 1964) My fellow Americans: I am about to sign into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I want to take this occasion to talk to you about what that law means to every American. One hundred and eighty-eight years ago this week a small band of valiant...
Martin Luther King jnr – MountainTop – Final Speech
Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It's always good to have your closest friend and associate to say something good about you, and Ralph Abernathy is the best friend that I have in the...
Martin Luther King jnr – Loving Your Enemies – Speech
Martin Luther King jnr Delivered this speech at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, on 17 November 1957. I am forced to preach under something of a handicap this morning. In fact, I had the doctor before coming to church. And he said that it would be best for me to stay in the bed this morning. And I insisted...
Martin Luther King – I have a Dream – Speech
Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech August 28 1963 I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as...
