Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Letter to His Old Master. To my Old Master Thomas Auld
Bk. II, Ch. 4
Hard Times (1854)
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Letter to His Old Master. To my Old Master Thomas Auld
David Morrison (1956) Australian army general
Address at the International Women's Day Conference (2013)
“My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea.”
Tommy Douglas (1904–1986) Scottish-born Canadian politician
Tommy Douglas 1961. http://web.archive.org/web/20041020022338/http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/douglas-tommy.html <br class="br">Mes amis, surveillez bien les petites gens qui ont des idées http://web.archive.org/web/20041029193928/http://www.cbc.ca/grandscanadiens/top_ten/nominee/douglas-tommy.html.
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
1970s, First Presidential address (1974)
Context: My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.
As we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of hate.
Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Man’s Search for Himself (1953)
Context: Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs — not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
“My dear friends, I bid you farewell as your President. I remain with you as your fellow citizen!”
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
Farewell Address (2003)
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1870s, Oratory in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876)