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'Political violence is political cowardice'
It's been a harrowing two days in the United States. Today, Bernie Sanders delivered a speech that you'd hope a president might present at an hour like…
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'Sometimes our first instinct is to want to hit a homosexual in the mouth'
Huey P.Newton was co-founder of the Black Panthers in 1966. On this day in 1970, he gave a speech to his macho membership about embracing women and the…
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10 years — The ten most visited speeches (Part 2)
Now for the top 5. These are the most visited speeches on the Speakola site across the last ten years, as measured by Squarespace analytics.
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10 years — The ten most visited speeches (Part 1)
These are the ten most visited speeches on Speakola, according to Squarespace analytics.
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Every significant speech ever delivered, by anyone, forever
The Speakola website launched on the 5th of August, 2015. It's ten years old this week. Here is the story of how it came to be.
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'She taught me so much just by loving me'
A subscriber sent me a bottle of gin. But her real gift is there in the pages of Speakola. Serena Ryan's eulogy for her Irish born Mum is one of the…
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'Robin Williams, what a concept'
It’s still the 21st of July in the USA (just), and it would have been Robin Williams' 74th birthday. The send off delivered by Billy Crystal at the 2014…
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