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[Enhanced Credo edition] |
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1 online resource (55 entries) : 14 images ; digital files. |
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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) -- |
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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) -- |
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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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| Summary |
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. |
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Also available in print version. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Description based on title page of print version. |
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Speeches, addresses, etc. -- 20th century.
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Speeches, addresses, etc. -- 21st century.
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Electronic books.
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Burner, Andrew, editor.
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Bailey, Nancy E. M, contributor.
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Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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Fifty speeches that made the modern world. |
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Print version: 1473640946 9781473640948 |
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9781786842329 electronic version |
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1473640946 print |
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9781473640948 print |
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