Great Speeches: Virginia Woolf - 20th and 26th October 1928

“For my belief is that if we live another century or so – and have £500 a year each of us and rooms of our own … the opportunity will come”

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Great Speeches: Margaret Thatcher - 10th October 1980

“ …you turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning”

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Great Speeches: Earl Spencer - September 6th 1997

“ …the most hunted person of the modern age”

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Great Speeches: Martin Luther King - August 28th 1963

“ …I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed … I have a dream that one day the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood”

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Great Speeches: Winston Churchill - June 4th 1940

“ … we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender … “

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Great Speeches: Nelson Mandela - April 20th 1964

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle … I have cherished the ideal of a democratic free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities … an ideal for which I am prepared to die”

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Great Speeches: Writing Out Loud

A series on some of the great speeches of the 20th century

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