Speech Banks

• American Rhetoric:
• Speaking While Female: historic speeches by women speakers.

Speeches in this AP Language & Composition textbook

• Climate activist Greta Thunberg to world leaders at the 2019 UN Climate Action summit in New York: “How dare you? You have stolen my dream and my childhood.”
• Mary Fisher, in a speech delivered during the 1992 Republican National Convention, spoke of her experiences as an AIDS patient and reflected on her family and the social prejudice against AIDS patients prevalent in the U.S.: “We have killed each other—with our ignorance, our prejudice, and our silence.”
• Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student who was shot in the head by the Taliban after speaking out for education rights for girls, speaks to the U.N. Youth Assembly on her 16th birthday: “The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.”
• Hillary Rodham Clinton delivering a speech to the 4th U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing, China: “[H]uman rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.”
• More on the way!