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==== March on Washington & Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech ==== | |||
* in 1963, the "'''March on Washington'''" was organized to demonstrate to the entire country | |||
** '''Martin Luther King''' gave his "'''I have a dream'''" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial | |||
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== General Comparative == | |||
=== Famous speeches === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+Famous Speeches | |||
!Orator (speaker) | |||
!Dates | |||
!Speech title | |||
!Purpose/ Details | |||
|- | |||
|George Washington | |||
|1796 | |||
|"'''Washington's Farewell Address'''" | |||
| | |||
* on leaving office, President Washington warned Americans: | |||
** to avoid "foreign entanglements" | |||
*** = not get involved in overseas diplomatic agreements | |||
** to avoid political parties | |||
*** | |||
|- | |||
|Abraham Lincoln | |||
|1862/3 | |||
|Emancipation Proclamation | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|Abraham Lincoln | |||
|1863 | |||
|Gettysburg Address | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|Woodrow Wilson | |||
|191> | |||
|"Fourteen Points Speech" | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) | |||
|1933 | |||
|"We have nothing fear but fear itself" speech | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) | |||
|1941 | |||
|"A day that will live in infamy" speech | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|John F. Kennedy (JFK) | |||
|1962 | |||
|"Berlin Wall speech" | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|Lyndon Johnson | |||
|196> | |||
|"Great Society speech" | |||
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|- | |||
|Martin Luther King | |||
|1963 | |||
|"I have a dream speech" | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|Ronald Reagan | |||
|198> | |||
|"Tear down this wall" speech | |||
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