Declamation Speech Examples
John F. Kennedy: Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You
Transcript Angelina Jolie: U.N. Security Council Speech to make rape an international crime
TranscriptPresident George Bush: Mission Accomplished Speech 2003
Transcript Shirley Chisholm: Equal Rights for Women
TranscriptPresident George Bush: After September 11
TranscriptBilly Joel: Berklee Commencement Speech 1993
Transcript Patrick Henry: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Transcript Jonathan Safran Foer: Middlebury College Commencement Speech 2013
Transcript VideoLucy Stone: Disappointment is the Lot of Women
Transcript C.S. Lewis: Beyond Personality--Mere Men
Transcript John Legend: University of Pennsylvania Commencement Speech
Transcript VideoFlorence Kelley: Child Labor and Women's Suffrage
Transcript David McCullough: You're Not Special Wellesley Commencement Speech
Transcript VideoMalala Yousafzai: United Nations Youth Assembly address, July 2013 Transcript/Video George Clooney: U.N. Speech about Darfur
Transcript Helen Clark: Speech to Women's International Forum on Women's Rights
Transcript Mahatma Ghandi: Response to Quit India Movement Speech
TranscriptPrincess Diana: Responding to Landmines:A Modern Tragedy and its Consequences
TranscriptPresident Ronald Reagan: Address to the Nation about the Challenger Disaster
Transcript VideoCoretta Scott King: 10 Commandments on Vietnam
Transcript Winston Churchill: This was their finest hour (WWII) Transcript