LET US ALL RISE AND SAY NO TO INJUSTICE AND SLAVERY.
Going by ranking, speeches by Socrate(circa 4th century BC), Patrick Henry(1775), Fredrick Douglas (1852), Abraham Lincoln (1863), Susan Anthony(1873), Winston Churchill(1940), John F.Kennedy(1961), Martin Luther King Jr (1963), Lyndon B. Johnson(1965), Ronald Reagan(1987), Jawaharlal Nehru(1947) and Nelson Mandela(1964) have been rated amongst the greatest speeches in history. No matter how their speeches were interpreted, they contain passion, commitment and power. For instance, Socrate was trying to defend himself before a jury of his peers in Athens but he did not succeed in saving his life but it has since become the soul and spirit of the discipline of philosophy. Infact, his speeches foregrounds the limitations of cognition and the relative value of life and death. The speeches presents humanity with a dilemma.
PATRICK HENRY - He rejected the idea of buying life and peace at the price of 'CHAINS AND SLAVERY' before a Richmond Church congregation.
His battle cry in support of Virginia Independence: ' Give me liberty or give me death'.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS - He forcefully through the power of rhetoric called attention to the injustice of American slavery and accused Americans for being ' false to the past, false to the present and committing themselves to be false to the future'.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN - He delivered the shortest speech ever which has so much power and effect.
In his 263 words speech delivered in three minutes Abraham Lincoln argued that America was 'Conceived in liberty and dedicated the proposition that all men are not created equal'.
WINSTON CHURCHILL - He was credited with one of history's most powerful battle cries.
Churchill encouraged his people :' You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Thank you all as u stand with equality and justice irrespective of backgrounds.
LET US SUPPORT A COMMON MAN BY SAYING NO TO SLAVERY & INJUSTICE for we created equal in the eyes of God.
Let us show love to one another by supporting the less privileged ones and not by turning the into our slaves.
Thank you all .