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Two feet from Clearwater's past, father's funny legacy leaves a deep impression
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In your opinion, what is the most powerful speech in history?
Despite not even being his most famous speech, I think that Martin Luther King's final speech "I've Have Been to the Mountaintop" is the most amazing example of public speaking ever. The grand...
Despite not even being his most famous speech, I think that Martin Luther King's final speech "I've Have Been to the Mountaintop" is the most amazing example of public speaking ever.
The grand finale of Dr. King's great legacy. A speech given by a man who knew that his days were numbered. A speech given by a man who knew he would not live to see his dream come to fruition. Dr. King discusses the adversity that the Civil Rights movement had already faced and how these challenges were overcome through non violent methods. He challenges America and it's citizens to live up to the ideals of the country.
Somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for rights. And so just as I said, we aren't going to let dogs or water hoses turn us around. We aren't going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on.
The speech ends with Dr. King foreshadowing the possibility of his death, an event which would occur the very next day when MLK was assassinated at his motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live – a long life; longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
So that's my vote. What do you view as the greatest speech in history and why?
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The Sacred Band of Carthage | Units of History
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Loving the alien - How UFO culture took over America
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The history of electoral ballot design
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The bombing and the breakthrough: How a chemical weapons disaster in World War II led to a US cover-up - and a new cancer treatment
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The golden age of computer user groups
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How industrial chicken farming transformed an ‘alternative’ meat to the most consumed meat in the US
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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How to make ice-cream cocktails like a true Wisconsinite
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The Eliza Effect
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The Food Programme: Food and the legacy of slavery
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The graphing calculator story
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Buried deep in the ice is the GitHub code vault — humanity's safeguard against devastation
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Remembering Soviet pop: The USSR's vocal-instrumental ensembles
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The past, present, and future of drum & bass in Finland
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The Balearic Slingers | Units of History
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August 6th, 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
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A small collection of novels — some great, some not so great — appeared in just the right form at just the right moment to effect lasting changes
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A brief history of quarantine: Sin, space, and ships
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The world of Kaiserreich: Exploring the lore of an alternate WW1
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The story of The Beatles' desegregation rider
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Denmark’s 300-year-old homes of the future – thatched with a seaweed that has the potential to be a contemporary building material
6 votes -
The ways that a cheese can go extinct, and the cheesemakers who are working to save them
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Bisexuality exists: Bisexual attraction study upends decades of flawed research
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Time killers: The strange history of wrist gaming
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The history of the automatic rice cooker
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The best Black movies of the last thirty years
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The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple
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With Obama saying "the filibuster is a 'Jim Crow relic' ”, it’s looking more and more like Democrats will abolish the filibuster if they win back the Senate
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Fleischer Studios taught Superman to quit leaping and fly
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Reconstructing ballroom history: Older generations vs. today
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The Caverns of Freitag: An obscure Apple II game that inspired the Japanese game Dragon Slayer, and helped birth the Action RPG genre
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May we all be so brave as 19th century female husbands
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As the 2020 baseball season finally gets under way, we take a look back in time, courtesy of the work of artist Mark Truelove and his fantastic colorised vintage baseball photographs
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Socialism’s DIY computer
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The Numidian Cavalry | Units of History
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The war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats
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How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history
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At the 1948 Olympics in bombed-out London, a Dutch track star named Fanny Blankers-Koen forever changed women's sports
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Bread, how did they make it? Part I: Farmers!
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Hiroshima (1946)
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How bouillon cubes became an international pantry staple
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Annunciation Triptych - Thank God for the details
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Arabic in the Sky
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Steven Bradbury, Australia’s last man standing
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The greatest Olympic cheat - The curious case of the electrified épée
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The village that the Luftwaffe bombed by mistake
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Do you have any quotes or articles that you now find prescient to share?
I have these 2 quotes here. This quote is apparently from this book, cited in this article: If the two parties do not develop alternative programs that can be executed, the voter’s frustration and...
I have these 2 quotes here. This quote is apparently from this book, cited in this article:
If the two parties do not develop alternative programs that can be executed, the voter’s frustration and the mounting ambiguities of national policy might also set in motion more extreme tendencies to the political left and the political right. This, again, would represent a condition to which neither our political institutions nor our civic habits are adapted. Once a deep political cleavage develops between opposing groups, each group naturally works to keep it deep. Such groups may gravitate beyond the confines of the American system of government and its democratic institutions.
Assuming a survival of the two-party system in form though not in spirit, even if only one of the diametrically opposite parties comes to flirt with unconstitutional means and ends, the consequences would be serious. For then the constitution-minded electorate would be virtually reduced to a one-party system with no practical alternative to holding to the “safe” party at all cost.
Wow.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. -John Adams
There is also this text from the Pew Political Typology of the US in 1999 which I found somewhat funny:
The polling shows more compassion toward the poor and less hostility toward immigrants. A greater percentage in this survey than in the recent past think the government should do more to help needy people, and fewer express strong support for tightening our borders to further restrict immigration. Both of these trends may reflect the increased economic satisfaction and diminished financial pressure registered in this year’s survey. Gains in economic contentment have been greatest among upper income groups, while people in the lowest income category report less financial pressure but no more financial satisfaction than in the mid-1990s. Unexpectedly, despite these trends, Americans report no greater satisfaction with their wages than in the recent past. In fact, middle-income people are less satisfied than they were in 1994.
DAMAGED AND SCUFFED, MY HANDS HAVE BEEN CUFFED, BUT I DON'T PLAN TO GET HUFF, FRANTIC AND PUFF OR PLAN TO GIVE U-
That has aged pretty uniquely if you see it as the immediate effects of neoliberalism.
Anyway, do you have anything to share?
12 votes