I just found The Online Speech Bank!!!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

Page description:
Database of, and index to, 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.

See also a special issue: The Rhetoric of 9-11

Perfect rainy day lazy afternoon place to wander and wonder.
Has a TOP 100 Speeches section, a LOT of MLK, for instance.
Many of us have heard ABOUT but were too young to actually see/hear,
some great speeches, but they are on this site!

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/


If you think this is a good find, pls. kick for others, yes?

[tblue]

1. I love this kinda stuff!

Thanks!

[patrice]

2. K&R

[Union Scribe]

3. Wow! Thank you for the link! nt

[Union Scribe]

4. They even have movie speeches

Like the filibuster in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Cool!

[Scuba]

5. Another in a great string of dixiegrrrrl posts. Thanks. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. I KNEW there had to be folks who love "stuff" like I do.

Just finished watching Al Pacino's speech from the movie "City Hall".
Trying to find his speech as Shylock in Merchant of Venice. Damn, THAT was a great one.

[Gregorian]

7. I'm already searching it for an amazing Martin Luther King speech I heard many years ago.

I'm getting close. But it may take a while.

Tonight, I would like to suggest some of the symbolic mountains that we have occupied long enough and that we must leave if we are to move on to the promised land of justice, peace, and brotherhood. Yea, the promised land of the kingdom of God. First, we've been in the mountain of practical materialism long enough. And when I speak of materialism at this point, I’m not talking about metaphysical materialism -- that strange doctrine that speaks of all of reality is little more than matter in motion, that strange doctrine that says in substance that all life is merely a physiological process with a physiological meaning. I’m not talking about that kind of materialism because I think ultimately it is blown away by the wind of essential thinking. I’m talking about practical materialism -- the notion that causes individuals to live as if material values are the only values and concerns in life.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. If you find it, post it here????? I would love to read/hear it.

[Gregorian]

16. I will. He's an amazing man.

I see why they killed him. He truly had the answers for a better world.


And how much of our modern life can be summarized in that arresting dictum of the poet Thoreau, "Improved means to an unimproved end?" We have allowed our civilization to outrun our culture; we have allowed our technology to outdistance our theology and for this reason we find ourselves caught up with many problems. Through our scientific genius we made of the world a neighborhood, but we failed through moral commitment to make of it a brotherhood, and so we’ve ended up with guided missiles and misguided men. And the great challenge is to move out of the mountain of practical materialism and move on to another and higher mountain which recognizes somehow that we must live by and toward the basic ends of life. We must move on to that mountain which says in substance, "What doth it profit a man to gain the whole world of means -- airplanes, televisions, electric lights -- and lose the end: the soul?"

[Lochloosa]

8. Excellent Site. Thanks,

[Lucinda]

9. Thank you!

knr

[Mnemosyne]

10. I'm hoping to find Jr's drunken speech in Argentina in 2005! Thanks! K&R n/t

[Luminous Animal]

12. Oddly enough, I found it this morning, too!

[trof]

13. Love your screen name. PM me, please?

Where you at?
I'm in Foley.

[annabanana]

14. DAMN!. .Just spent a lo-o-o-o-ong time in the historical

maps section.

What a GREAT site!

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Maps??? I missed that! BRB......

[fascisthunter]

15. awesome!!!!

[hwmnbn]

18. K&R

[Solly Mack]

19. Sweet

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Don't ya love it when you find a brain scratching resource????

[MerryBlooms]

20. Great find, and happy to k&r. n/t

[Overseas]

21. K&R.

[louslobbs]

23. K&R

Thank you, just added to my favorites.
Lou

[Odin2005]

24. Awesome site! Thanks!

[swilton]

25. Online finds like that are gems!

Thanks for sharing!

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. They are gems and can be huge time sinks, but I love them!

Keeps me out of the casinos, I figure.
:evilgrin: