[lbo-talk] Query: Your favorite speeches and talks

Tayssir John Gabbour tjg at pentaside.org
Thu Jun 28 08:44:02 PDT 2012


Malcolm X @ Oxford Union (https://vimeo.com/8621774) would be good for this.

Ralph Nader also had something appropriate (about corporate personhood?) at some law school. But I can't find the video.

(I don't actually trust good orators much; and prefer those who actually try talking over their own applause, though of course with the decency not to interrupt the applause directed at others. But in terms of performance, I think Malcolm and Nader are very good. Nader in particular acts like a statesman without a state.)

All the best,

Tj

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need spoken presentations, made recently enough for me to find and
> download videos, for English classes. Ones I've used recently include
> Malcolm X's "By Any Means Necessary" and John F. Kennedy's "We Choose to Go
> to the Moon" - politics aren't as essential as excellent use of the
> language. Any ideas?
>
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