delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. I am pleased to join you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. One hundred years ago, a great American, whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous […]
Winston Churchill, one of the greatest orators of the 20th century, was quite interesting, as Demosthenes and other orators before him, born with a speech impediment which he worked until only the prevented. You would never guess it from the voice strong and reassuring Churchill, a voice that would buoy up Britain during some of […]
Given while serving as a New York assemblyman, TR address the “duties of American citizenship” drew on both theoretical reasons why all men should be involved in the political and practical ways to serve this quality. Roosevelt rebuked those who apologized for the policy because they were too busy, it was the duty of every […]
On August 2, 1990, tanks and soldiers in Iraq crossed the border in neighboring Kuwait and seized the small oil-rich nation. Iraqi troops then began massing along the border of Saudi Arabia. A few days later, U.S. troops were sent to Saudi Arabia in Operation Desert Shield, protecting Saudi Arabia from a possible attack. On […]
Nathuram Godse was arrested immediately after he assassinated Gandhiji, based on a F. I. R. filed by Nandlal Mehta at the Tughlak Road Police staton at Delhi . The trial, which was held in camera, began on May 27, 1948 and concluded on February 10, 1949. He was sentenced to death. An appeal to the […]