Greatest Speeches

I've Been to the Mountaintop" Speech (MLK's last speech) in Memphis, TN

April 3, 1968

"But we understand how the honkies are - they don't recognize their own racism."

stokeley

Stokely

"We Ain't Going"

MLK assassination by James Earl Ray

April 4, 1968

RFK speech about MLK's assassination (Indianapolis, IN)

April 4, 1968

"I Have a Dream" Speech was spoken by MLK (Washington, DC)

August 28, 1963

¨i'm sick and tired of being sick and tired¨

Fannie Lou Hamer

Malcolm X assassination by 3 Nation of Islam brothers (Manhattan, NYC)

February 21, 1965

Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg Address and 2nd Inauguration remarks

Martin Luther King Jr.

I Have a Dream" and "I've Been to the Mountaintop"

"They worked from sunup until sundown - - from can't see in the morning until can't see at night."

JFK

"In good conscience, we cannot support wholeheartedly the administration's civil rights bill, for it is too little and too late."

John Lewis

RFK assassination by Sirhan Sirhan (Los Angeles, CA)

June 6, 1968

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation conceived in Liberty."

Lincoln

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

MLK

"I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream."

MLK

"I've been to the mountain top."

MLK

"Every time you break the seal on that liquor bottle, that's a government seal you're breaking."

Malcolm X

"So I have to stand here today as what I was when I was born: A Black man."

Malcolm X

"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us."

Malcolm X

John Lewis

March on Washington: Remarks on Civil Rights Movement

JFK assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald (Dallas, TX)

November 23, 1965

"We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past, but we - - and we will have difficult times in the future."

RFK

Bloody Sunday (started Selma rebellion) Selma to Montgomery march (in Alabama)

September 15, 1963

"They have defined us as Negroes. Nowhere else in the world is there such a word. "

Stokley

Fannie Lou Hamer

famous quote: "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."

"And I say to you, WAKE UP AMERICA!"

john lewis

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

mlk

Malcolm X

opening lines to the Movie & "It's either the Ballot or the Bullet"

RFK

remarks on MLK's assassination