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ISBN: 0743357862
Martin Luther King Jr. Delivered on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the 13
I Have A Dream Lincoln Memorial, MLK Jr. called for racial
equality and an end to discrimination.
Martin Luther King Jr. Stirring and passionate. Delivered 3 April 1968, 15
The Promised Land Mason Temple, Memphis, Tennessee
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Delivered June 17 , 2008 at the Foreign Relations
Angelina Jolie headquarters. About international law and justice.
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Peace and Justice She spoke passionately about her personal
experiences and Darfur.
Four score and seven years ago, our ______________ brought forth on this continent a
new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
equal. Now we are engaged in a great _____________ war, testing whether that nation,
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
The ______________ men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far
above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long ____________
what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not
____________________. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when
this city will be joined as one and this country and this great continent of Europe in a
peaceful and hopeful ____________________. When that day finally comes, as it will,
the people of West Berlin can take sober __________________________ in the fact that
they were in the front lines for almost two ____________________________.
All free men, wherever they may live, are ______________________ of Berlin, and,
therefore, as a free man, I take ________________________ in the words "Ich bin ein
Berliner."
Complete the sentences:
I have a dream that one day this _________________________ will rise up and live out
the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the _____________________ hills of Georgia the sons of
former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a
table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state,
___________________ with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed
into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four ________________________ will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their
character.
Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days _____________.
But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountain___________.
Like anybody, I would like to live a long __________________. Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me
to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may
not get there with you. But I want you to know ___________________, that we, as a
people, will get to the promised land!
And so I'm happy, ______________________. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not
fearing any man! Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!
Complete the sentences:
3. I don’t _____________________.
I have bad news for you, for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over
the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and killed __________________.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice for his fellow human beings,
and he died because of that ______________________.
In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask
what kind of a nation we are and what ________________________we want to move in.
For those of you who are black - considering the evidence there evidently is that there
were white people who were _____________________- you can be filled with bitterness,
with hatred, and a desire for revenge. We can move in that direction as a country, in great
polarization - black people amongst black, white people amongst white, filled with hatred
toward one ____________________________.
Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to _____________________ and to
comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across
our ________________________, with an effort to understand with compassion and love.
Complete the sentences:
Our reward will come in the life of freedom and peace and ________________ that our
children will enjoy through ages ahead. What we won when all of our people united just
must not now be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics among any of
our _____________________. And believing this, as I do, I have concluded that I should
not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are
developing in this _________________________year.
With American sons in the fields far away, with America's future under ______________
right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace in the balance every
day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal
partisan _______________________ or to any duties other than the awesome duties of
this office -- the Presidency of your country.
Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for
another ____________________ as your President. But let men everywhere know,
however, that a strong and a confident and a vigilant America stands ready tonight to
seek an _________________________ peace; and stands ready tonight to defend an
honored cause, whatever the price, whatever the burden, whatever the sacrifice that duty
may ________________________.
Complete the sentences:
You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a
_____________________ period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as
a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?
The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several ______________________.
They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go
away because we, as Americans, have the ______________________ now, as we have
had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion
of freedom.
Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are _________________ to
the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger. We know we share this pain with all of
the people of our country. This is truly a national ___________________.
Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on
the ______________________. But, we've never lost an astronaut in flight; we've never
had a tragedy like this. And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of
the shuttle; but they, the Challenger Seven, were aware of the ____________________,
but overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly. We mourn seven heroes: Michael Smith,
Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and
Christa McAuliffe. We mourn their loss as a nation _________________________.
For the families of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full __________________ of
this tragedy. But we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. Your loved
ones were daring and __________________________, and they had that special grace,
that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with _______________.'
Complete the sentences:
But I stand before you tonight because all across America something is stirring. What the
naysayers don't _______________________is that this election has never been about me;
it's about you.
For 18 long months, you have _________________ up, one by one, and said, "Enough,"
to the politics of the past. You understand that, in this election, the greatest _________
we can take is to try the same, old politics with the same, old players and expect a
different result.
You have shown what history teaches us, that at defining moments like this one, the
_____________________ we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to
Washington.
Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are __________________
and they are many.
They will not be met easily or in a short ______________________ of time. But know
this, America - they will be met. On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope
over fear, unity of purpose over ________________________ and discord.
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to
____________________ childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring
spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea,
________________________ from generation to generation: the God-given promise that
all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of
_____________________.
Complete the sentences:
You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is __________________.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you
might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing _______________.
Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I
discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found
out that I had friends whose ___________________ was truly above the price of rubies.
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you
are, ever after, secure in your ____________________ to survive. You will never truly
know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by
adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been
worth more than any qualification I ever _______________________.
So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in
knowing that life is not a _________________________ of acquisition or achievement.
Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my
age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and
_______________________anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will
enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
Complete the sentences:
7. You will never know until they have been tested by ____________________.
Common sense tells us that when the risks are weighed, the decisions are made very
differently. When _________________ against humanity are punished consistently and
severely, the killer's calculus will change, and when a killer is allowed to walk away from
his crimes, I believe that also tells him ________________________.
It sends a message to the next that they need not worry, that they will most likely not be
held accountable for their _______________________. I believe that the existence of
trials alone has the potential to change behavior, but ultimately, we need to ___________
those who are indicted.
And the Sudanese arrest of Ali Kushayb appears to be a positive development, but not if
it becomes a bargaining chip that will stop others from being brought to ______________.
Without an arrest, we tell the victims of these atrocities that impunity is the rule of law.
Now, I don't know if the ICC is the answer, and I don't know what type of ____________
is or what it would need to be for all of us to agree and make it strong enough.
I have no idea.
And after seven years of traveling into the field, I find that I have a lot I need to _______.
But I do know this, no mother who had her children killed in front of her, no young girl
sold into slavery, no boy kidnapped and forced to be a child soldier, and no young girl
like the three-year-old I met in Sierra Leone who had her limbs ____________________
should be expected to simply forget.
No one should have to choose between peace or ___________________, and that young
boy in Darfur who asked for a trial deserves one.
Complete the sentences:
6. I have no _________________.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was
your last, someday you'll most ___________________ be right." It made an impression
on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the ______________ every
morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do
what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many
days in a ___________________, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important ______________ I've ever
encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all
external expectations, all pride, all fear of _____________________ or failure - these
things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the
______________ of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There
is no reason not to follow your _____________________.
Complete the sentences:
Last August, I was told that in all likelihood, I had three to six months left to live. I'm on
month nine now. And I'm not gonna _________________ and do any pushups, but there
will be a short _________________basketball game later. Somebody said to me in light
of these numbers,
"Wow! So, you're really beating the Grim Reaper." And what I said without even
thinking about it is,...
“We don’t beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living
______________. For the reaper will come for all of us, the question is ‘what do we do
between the time we’re born and the time he shows up?’. ______________ when he
shows up, it’s too late to do all the things that you’re always going to get around to.”
So, I think the only ____________ I can give you on how to live your life well is first off,
remember, it's a cliché but I love clichés, "It is not the things we do in life that we regret
on our ________________, it is the things we do not." 'Cause I assure you I've done a lot
of really stupid things, and none of them bother me. All the mistakes, and all the dopey
things, and all the times I was embarrassed, they don't matter. What ______________ is
that I can kinda look back and say, "Pretty much anytime I got a chance to do something
cool, I tried to ______________ for it." And that's where my solace comes from.
Complete the sentences:
But my idea of success is different today. And as you grow, you'll realise the definition of
success ____________________. For many of you, today, success is being able to hold
down 20 shots of tequila. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life
with integrity, and not to give into peer ___________________. to try to be something
that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. to contribute in
some way. So to conclude my conclusion: follow your ________________, stay true to
yourself. Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and
you see a path, and by all means you should follow that. Don't give _______________, it
will come back and bite you in the ass. Don't take anyone's advice. So my advice to you
is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.
And I know that a lot of you are __________________ about your future, but there's no
need to worry. The economy is booming, the job market is wide open, the planet is just
fine. It's gonna be great. You've already ___________________ a hurricane. What else
can happen to you? And as I mentioned before, some of the most devastating things that
happen to you will teach you the most. And now you know the right questions to ask in
your first job __________________. Like, "Is it above sea level?" . So to conclude my
conclusion that I've previously concluded, in the common cement speech, I guess what
I'm trying to say is life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of ______________ your
boobs, show ________________ your brain, and if they like what they see, you'll have
more beads than you know what to do with. And you'll be drunk, most of the time. So the
Katrina class of 2009, I say congratulations and if you don't remember a thing I said
today, remember this: you're gonna be ok, dum de dum dum dum, just _______________.
Complete the sentences:
4. So to conclude my ___________________________.
6. Some of the most ___________________ing things will teach you the most.
8. I _______________ what I’m trying to say is, you are gonna be ok.
What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the ______________of so much
energy and intelligence.
It was an amazing privilege and though I left early, I was transformed by my years at
Harvard, the _____________________ I made and the ideas I worked on. But taking a
serious look back, I do have one big ______________.
I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world, the appalling
____________________ of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of
people to lives of despair.
I learned a lot here at Harvard about new _____________ in Economics and Politics. I
got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences. But humanity's greatest
__________________ are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied
to reduce inequity.
Complete the sentences:
Sports were what brought our community together. They strengthen our ties to one
______________________.
Growing up, when I played games with the kids in my neighborhood, we picked sides
based not on who you were, but what you could bring to the ________________. Sports
taught me self-confidence, teamwork, and how to compete as an equal.
Sports were a gift I shared with my dad - especially the Olympic Games.
But I never dreamed that the Olympic flame might one day light up lives in my
______________________.
But today, I can dream, and I am dreaming of an Olympic and Paralympic Games in
Chicago that will light up lives in neighborhoods all _________________America and all
across the world; that will expose all our neighborhoods to new sports and new
__________________; that will show every child that regardless of wealth, or gender, or
race, or physical ability, there is a sport and a place for them, too. …………….
Complete the sentences:
I believe that when you are at peace with yourself, both mentally and _____________ly,
you can achieve anything.
Peace is what allows us, especially young people, to dream, go after one's goals, and
prepare you for the next _________________ in life.
There is a saying, "Where there is peace, there is culture. Where there is culture, there is
peace." However, as an athlete and figure skater, I would like to say, "Where there is
peace, there is _________________. Where there is sports, there is peace."
You see, the scale of the suffering numbs us into a kind of indifference.
We can't fix every problem, but the ones we can, I want to _______________, we must.
And because we can, we must. This is the straight truth. The righteous truth.
It is not a theory.
The fact is that ours is the first _______________________ that can look disease and
extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa and say this, and
_________________ it,.
Gettysberg Address
I Have A Dream
Obama: Inaugural
Bono: On Africa
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