Re:We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. Yo...
by totalZero on Sunday October 23, 2016 @03:47AM
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Not to mention the utter cruelty that set the backdrop for the I Have a Dream speech.
We get moving speeches when issues hit so close to home that the words serve as kindling for our deeper emotions. Every speech is inextricably tied to its own context.
Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet"
Ronald Reagan's Space Shuttle Challenger address
LBJ, "We Shall Overcome"
JFK, "Ich Bin Ein Berliner"
None of these speeches would have been as meaningful in a different time, with different events and feelings and happenings.
We get moving speeches when issues hit so close to home that the words serve as kindling for our deeper emotions. Every speech is inextricably tied to its own context.
Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet" Ronald Reagan's Space Shuttle Challenger address LBJ, "We Shall Overcome" JFK, "Ich Bin Ein Berliner"
None of these speeches would have been as meaningful in a different time, with different events and feelings and happenings.