Word: speeches
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...speech sponsored by the Black Students Association (BSA), Dinkins, now a Columbia University professor of public affairs, cited examples of discrimination from the past half-century, saying "it is necessary that we ask ourselves whether there has been any real improvement in the last forty years...
Anyone who claims to actually remember what Mandela said is probably lying. What was truly moving was not his speech or even his voice, but the physical moment of his arrival on the dais. We were asked to rise, and suddenly, we heard the sounds of African drums reverberating through the Yard. As we caught sight of him, a cheer swept across the crowd like a rush of wind, as if we were standing at the coronation of an ancient king...
Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity emeritus, Gordon D. Kaufman, was enthusiastic about the issues Schussler-Fiorenza raised in his speech...
...commentary of our Democratic state Speaker reminds me a little too much of the antics of the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Both men are more enamored of neat rhetoric than they are of reasoned statements or even sensible ones. Who could forget Gingrich's famous speech at the 1996 Republican convention on beach volleyball: "A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. Now it is not only a sport in the Olympics. There are over 30 countries that have a competition internationally....And there's a whole new world of opportunity opening up that...
...speech, Patten stressed his devotion to human rights in Asia. There is "an appalling human rights record in China," he said, pledging that he would speak out "continuously and forcefully" on the issue...