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“What we need in the United States is not division. What we need in the
United States is not hatred. What we need in the United States is not violence
and lawlessness; but is love and wisdom and compassion toward one another,
and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country
whether they be white or whether they be black.”
Robert F. Kennedy, Announcing the death of Martin Luther King
“To raise a happy, healthy, and hopeful child, it takes a family; it takes
teachers; it takes clergy; it takes business people; it takes community leaders;
it takes those who protect our health and safety. It takes all of us.”
Hillary Clinton, 1996 Democratic National Convention Address
“I said you’re afraid to bleed. [As] long as the white man sent you to Korea, you
bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to
fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white people. But when it comes
time to seeing your own churches being bombed and little black girls be[ing]
murdered, you haven’t got no blood.”
Malcolm X, Message to the Grassroots
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“Let us let our own children know that we will stand against the forces of fear.
When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is
talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it.”
Bill Clinton, Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Prayer Service Address
“Tonight, we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom.
Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution.”
George W. Bush, 9-20-01 Address to Congress and the Nation
“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop
playing.”
George Bernard Shaw
“...that development, security, and human rights must go hand in hand; and
that there can be no security without development and no development
without security; and neither can be sustained in the longer term without it
being rooted in the rule of law and respect for human rights.”
Kofi Annan, Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly
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“And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask
what you can do for your country.”
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
“I have a dream that my four little children 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. I have a dream today!”
Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream
“That’s one small step for [a] man; one giant leap for mankind.”
Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 Moon Landing Speech
“We find ourselves rich in goods but ragged in spirit, reaching with magnificent
precision for the moon but falling into raucous discord on earth. We are caught
in war, wanting peace. We’re torn by division, wanting unity.”
Richard M. Nixon, Inaugural Address
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“John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a great and good President, a friend of all people of
goodwill, a believer in the dignity and equality of all human beings, a fighter for
justice, an apostle of peace, has been snatched from our midst by the bullet of
an assassin.”
Justice Earl Warren, Eulogy for John F. Kennedy
“The union survival, its very existence, sent out a signal to all Hispanics that we
were fighting for our dignity, that we were challenging and overcoming
injustice, that we were empowering the least educated among us, the poorest
among us. The message was clear. If it could happen in the fields, it could
happen anywhere: in the cities, in the courts, in the city councils, in the state
legislatures.”
Cesar Chavez, Commonwealth Club Address
“Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what
you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying
points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there
seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.”
General Douglas MacArthur, Thayer Award Acceptance Address
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“And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind,
cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind,
and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that
it was good.”
Genesis 1:24-25 (KJV)
 It’s not unusual for a jury to be misled by a convincing argument
 Such a situation could be termed not improperly the abuse of
power
 It may not be unfair to say that she did not remain unaware of the
situation
 If you can persuade a jury of such a man’s innocence, it will be no
small proof of your skills
 The overall effect was certainly neither displeasing nor was it
disagreeable
Based on:
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http://www.americanrhetoric.com/ [accessed 25th January 2013]

http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm [accessed 25th January 2013]
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