“I’m not here to collect your pity, I’m here to disrupt your confidence” Hannah Gadsby’s 2nd Netflix 75 minute comedy performance is not, strictly speaking, a speech. But, it’s not not a speech either. There are so many lessons...
Elie Wiesel delivered a breathtaking speech at the White House on the 12th of April 1999. His message combined his own experience of the holocaust and the evil of apathy. “The opposite of love is not hatred, it’s indifference… Even hatred at times may elicit a...
“Manhood suffrage would plunge our fair province into a perfect debauchery of extravagance, a perfect nightmare of expense…” Nellie McClung, the Canadian author and suffragist, delivered a satirical address in a mock parliament performance, turning...
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered on the 19th of November 1863 remains one of the most impactful speeches of all time. Perhaps the most impressive use of so few words the world has ever seen. “Four score and seven years ago our...
Oprah Winfrey was given a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes on 7 January 2018. She used this occasion, and her powerful platform to make a stand. “For too long women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power...
