Speech Category: Vital Speeches

DERMATOLOGISTS: THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN Guess how many black dermatologists are listed in the whole State of California? Three. None of them are here in San Francisco. None of them are in Oakland, across the Bay, a city with a large African-American population. It’s one thing to be underrepresented in medicine, it’s another thing to be unrepresented. Address by BRUCE WINTROUB, MD, Chair of Dermatology and Interim Dean, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine Delivered as Livingood Lecture,
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology,
San Francisco, Calif., March 22, 2015

WHY THIS DEAL IS SO BAD It doesn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb; it paves Iran’s path to the bomb. So why would anyone make this deal? Because they hope that Iran will change for the better in the coming years, or they believe that the alternative to this deal is worse? Well, I disagree. Address by BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, Prime Minister, Israel Delivered to a Joint Session of U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2015

THE LIMITS OF SECURITY In our lifetime, the limits of our security have changed dramatically. From mutually assured destruction by nuclear weapons, to risks of social breakdown through terrorism or cyber attacks. Ideas of Order and Values are shifting too. The way we think about security needs to change accordingly. Address by JOHN SAWERS, Former Chief, Secret Intelligence Service, United Kingdom Delivered as the War Studies 2015 Annual Lecture, King’s College, London, England, Feb. 16, 2015

TONIGHT, WE TURN THE PAGE The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong. At this moment—with a growing economy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry, and booming energy production … it is now up to us to choose who we want to be over the next fifteen years, and for decades to come. Address by BARACK OBAMA, President, United States Delivered to a Joint Session of Congress,
U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. Jan. 20, 2015

LET US GLOBALIZE COMPASSION, AND SET OUR CHILDREN FREE The single aim of my life is that every child is: free to be a child, free to grow and develop, free to eat, sleep, see daylight, free to laugh and cry, free to play, free to learn, free to go to school, and above all, free to dream. Address by KAILASH SATYARTHI, Co-Winner, The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 Delivered in Oslo, Norway,
Dec. 10, 2014

TO MAKE IMMIGRATION MORE FAIR AND MORE JUST My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too. And whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic, or the Pacific, or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in.
Address by BARACK OBAMA, President, United States
Delivered at the White House,
Washington, D.C., Nov. 20, 2014

OUR BROTHER KILLED OUR SISTER’S SON. HOW CAN WE NOT BE INVOLVED? The test of our movement’s commitment to our legacy is not whether we post Dr. King’s picture in our union halls … it is do we take up the righteous struggle when the going gets tough, when the fight gets real against the evils that still exist today.
Address by RICHARD L. TRUMKA, President, AFL-CIO
Delivered to the 2014 Missouri AFL-CIO Convention, St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 15, 2014

ON ISIL, OUR OBJECTIVE IS CLEAR We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy.
Address by BARACK OBAMA, President, United States of America
Delivered from the White House,
Washington, D.C., Sept. 10, 2014

AN ACT OF VIOLENCE THAT SHOCKED THE CONSCIENCE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ISIL has no ideology of any value to human beings. Their ideology is bankrupt. The United States of America will continue to do what we must do to protect our people. We will be vigilant and we will be relentless.
Address by BARACK OBAMA, President, United States of America
Delivered at Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.,
Aug. 20, 2014

STAND NOW WITH ISRAEL SO THAT WE MAY REMOVE THE THREAT OF TERRORISM We did everything in our power to avoid this. But Hamas rejected every overture to restore the quiet.
Address by RON PROSOR, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Israel
Delivered at emergency meeting of
U.N. Security Council, New York City, N.Y., July 18, 2014