Tomorrow is the 48th anniversary of the monumental “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Regarded as one of the most famous speeches in the history of mankind, the speech was delivered on 28 August 1963 at Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Though Abraham Lincoln, through his “Emancipation Proclamation” in 1862-63, stopped the despicable practice of slavery, the coloured people of America were not given the civil rights. Martin Luther King Jr., the Mahatma Gandhi of the coloured people (Negroes) in the United States, led the non-violent struggle in bringing civil rights for them.
At the following URL you can listen to this great speech. Use the “Audio MP3 of the address” option, not the You Tube link, to listen to the speech. While listening to it you can also read the transcript of the speech given just beneath the audio option.
If you are someone who aspires to make it big as an orator or at least wants to improve your public speaking skills, this is an excellent model to follow. The speech, widely hailed as a masterpiece of rhetoric, will help you learn how to use powerful words in your speech, how to modulate your voice to motivate the listeners and how to mix emotional expressions in inspiring people.
AmericanRhetoric.com is a good resource to find many great speeches including the first presidential address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the times of Great Depression (in Economics, depression is the worst form of recession), Lyndon Johnson’s “We shall overcome” speech, Barack Obama’s Cairo University speech, to name but a few.
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