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Perhaps it is because we are voting tomorrow and I am wishing for people of vision that my thoughts turned to Martin Luther King’s I have a dream speech on August 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. when asked where and when I would bring my students if I had a time machine for the Ontario Extend’s Daily Extend #oext195.
Listen to it here from Archive.org
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I also thought of JFK’s Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961, United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.
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Winston Churchill first speech as Prime Minister.
[archiveorg ChurchillFirstAddressPM width=640 height=140 frameborder=0 webkitallowfullscreen=true mozallowfullscreen=true]
For a different take on the spoken word, may I suggest Figures of Speech from Almeida Theater. In particular, Patient Zero:
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