A list of speeches that can be used for students to read and analyse.
Speeches are examples and models of oratory throughout the millennia and especially in the 20th and 21st centuries
Speeches of Thanksgiving
- Ashton Kutcher
When accepting Nickelodeon’s Teen Choice Ultimate Choice Award in 2013, Ashton Kutcher gave a speech about what he learned as a child that made him the man he is now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNXwKGZHmDc
- Robin Rhianna Fenty
Speech at the Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year Award
https://youtu.be/pjlNIr7UIPA
- Sandra Bullock
Speech – Academy Award acceptance speech for Actress in a Leading Role (March 7, 2010), Sandra Bullock Wins Best Actress: 2010 Oscars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hTTwSQPmMo
- Joaquin Phoenix
Receiving an Award at the Academy Awards, (12.02.2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUllIT8rCj4
- Selena Gomez
Woman of the Year Award at Billboard’s Women in Music 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMrRN99DYKU&t=34s
- Penelope Cruz
Speech at the 2019 San Sebastian International Film Festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmjyysUJi1Y
- Lupita Nyong’o
Speech for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73fz_uK-vhs
Motivation speeches
- Donovan Livingston
Ed.M.’16, student speaker at HGSE’s 2016 Convocation exercises.
Harvard Graduate School and Education – 25 May 2016, 4:40
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/16/05/lift
- Lou Gehrig
Speech – „Farewell to Baseball“ July 4, 1939, Yankee Stadium „Farewell to Baseball“, July 4, 1939, on the occasion of the end of the career of Lou Gehrig, who was ill with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
https://baseballhall.org/discover-more/stories/baseball-history/lou-gehrig-luckiest-man
Speeches delivered by politicians, statesmen and monarchs
- President Barack Obama
Speech at the dedication of the Martin Luther King National Memorial, November 13, 2006 – http://obamaspeeches.com/093-Martin-Luther-King-Memorial-Groundbreaking-Ceremony-Obama-Speech.htm
- AngelaMerkel – Federal Chancellor
New Year’s Speech
New Year’s speech of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel 31.12.2020
#AngelaMerkel #Bundeskanzlerin #Neujahrsansprache
Neujahrsansprache der Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel 31.12.2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2kzH2lXISQ
- President Trump Trump
New Year Speech 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mikCV82Om0A
https://factba.se/transcript/donald-trump-vlog-new-year-detailed-message-december-31-2018
- Jacques Chirac – Président de la République –
Vélodrome d’hiver – 1995
https://www.fondationshoah.org/sites/default/files/2017-04/Allocution-J-Chirac-Vel-dhiv-1995.pdf
- Emmanuel Macron – Président de la République
Speech was deliverd during a national tribute ceremony to Samuel Patti at the Sorbonne on 21.10.2020.
President remembers Paty’s commitment to learning and freedom in Sorbonne tribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epkC2IrQz4M
- Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Speech to Parliament on the Christchurch terrorist attack
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-19/christchurch-shootings-jacinda-ardern-house-speech-shooter-name/10917030 .
- Hillary Clinton
Speech on women’s rights
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/09/04/hillary-clinton-united-nations-china-womens-rights-bts.cnn
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/hillaryclintonbeijingspeech.htm
Movie speeches
- Patch Adams
Defines speech, delivered in the 1998 film of the same name by Robin Williams
http://www.lifeintherightdirection.com/patch-adams-inspiration/
(PATCH ADAMS COMPLETE SPEECH) –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDEjgOFOLho
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V for Vendetta – Speech
http://vbox7.com/play:2f7d79b879
Commencement speech
- J.K. Rowling
Speech on the occasion of the graduation of the Harvard Class of 2008
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/06/text-of-j-k-rowling-speech/
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/j-k-rowling-speaks-at-harvard-commencement
http://www.online.rhetoric.bg/wp-admin/post.php?post=1618&action=edit&message=6
Motivational speech
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Eric Thomas
How Bad Do You Want It? Eric Thomas inspirational video