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World’s Greatest Speeches: A Look at Some of the Most Inspirational Speeches of all Time
World’s Greatest Speeches: A Look at Some of the Most Inspirational Speeches of all Time
World’s Greatest Speeches: A Look at Some of the Most Inspirational Speeches of all Time
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World’s Greatest Speeches: A Look at Some of the Most Inspirational Speeches of all Time

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The Speeches inspire, the Speeches tell us the purpose of life and living. The Speeches which teach us of character, patriotism, love, sacrifices, adventure, beauties of wonderful existence on the planet earth. 
Speeches of the great sons of civilizations who have given new ideas and contributed immensely to save our world from inhalation and created peaceful environment. 
In the present work we have made an attempt to collect a few such specimen speches.

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Release dateSep 9, 2018
ISBN9781386504856
World’s Greatest Speeches: A Look at Some of the Most Inspirational Speeches of all Time

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    World’s Greatest Speeches - Ram Das

    MAULANA ABUL KALAM AZAD

    Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born in the year 1888 in Mecca. His forefather’s came from Herat (a city in Afghanistan) in Babar’s days. Azad was a descendent of a lineage of learned Muslim scholars, or Maulanas. His father’s name was Maulana Khairuddin and his mother was the daughter of Sheikh Mohammad Zaher Watri.

    IN THEIR OWN WORDS

    I am a Muslim and profoundly conscious of the fact that I have inherited Islam’s glorious tradition of the last fourteen hundred years. I am not prepared to lose even a small part of that legacy. The history and teachings of Islam, its arts and letters, its culture and civilization are part of my wealth and it is my duty to cherish and guard them... But, with all these feelings, I have another equally deep realization, born out of my life’s experience which is strengthened and not hindered by the Islamic spirit. I am equally proud of the fact that I am an Indian, an essential part of the indivisible unity of the Indian nationhood, a vital factor in its total makeup, without which this noble edifice will remain incomplete."

    If the whole world is our country and is to be honored, the dust of India has the first place ...... If all mankind are our brothers, then the Indians have the first place.

    Not only is our national freedom impossible without Hindu Muslim unity, we also cannot create, without it, the primary principles of humanity. If an angel were to tell me: ‘Discard Hindu. Muslim unity and within 24 hours I will give freedom to India’; I would prefer Hindu-Muslim unity. For the delay in the attainment of freedom will be a loss to India alone, but if the Hindu-Muslim unity disappears, that will be a loss to the whole humanity.

    Tagore’s conception of God rises above all narrow limitations of race, religion or creed. The term Adavita translated into Arabic would read ‘Wahdahu-la-Shareek,’ the one who has no second...

    It was India’s historic destiny that many human races, cultures and religions should flow to her, and that many a caravan should find rest here... One of the last of these caravans was that of the followers of Islam. This came here and settled for good... In India everything bears the stamp of the joint endeavor of the Hindus and Muslims. Our languages were different, but we grew to use a common language. Our manners and customs were dissimilar, but they produced a new synthesis. No fantasy or artificial scheming to separate and divide us can break this unity.

    As an Indian 1 hate the notion of slicing India into two. As a Muslim, I am not prepared for a moment to give up my right to treat the whole of India as my domain or to content myself with a mere fragment of it.

    ANNIE BESANT

    Have you ever heard about a person following a unique principle described in the Hindu Shastras (Holy Books) Vasudhaivkutumbkam, meaning Whole world is my family. It was none other than the British born Theosophist and nationalist leader in India -Dr. Annie Besant. She was a prominent, revolutionary free-thinker of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She wrote a number of works on Atheism, Feminism, Freedom, Hinduism, Socialism and Theosophy. An excellent orator and an author with a poetic temperament, Dr. Besant was a versatile tornado of power and passion. She was one of the few foreigners who inspired the love for the nation among Indians.

    She collected many nicknames from all over the world. She was called Dr. Besant, even though she never studied medicine nor did she do her Ph. D. She was called Annie militant, even though she argued for passive resistance. She was called Mother because of her love and compassion for the downtrodden.

    Address delivered at First Students Conference at Nellore, South India on June 16, 1916. It speaks of her thoughts that touched the very essence and fabric of every Indian’s life.

    PREPARATION FOR CITIZENSHIP

    The Grandmother is a great authority in the Indian household and men forty years old consider the Grandmother’s opinion and Seek to please and help her. She is a force on the conservative side and being kept away from her childhood from touch with public life she inevitably retards the forward progress of the men who love and honor her. Now I am clearly old enough to be the Grandmother of the members of this Conference, but my Western upbringing has kept me in touch with public life, and hence I am a force, not 011 the conservative but on the forward side...

    As students, whether in school or college, you need to realize the enormous importance of the present years as the preparation for your work in the world. With the natural impatience of youth, you are passionately eager to be acting; but do you understand, do you at all realize, that among the youths now struggling with their books are, as in every other country, the future leaders of the Nation, the Ministers, the Statesmen, the Generals, the Admirals, the Judges, the Merchant Princes, of the coming India? The Nation of tomorrow is in the schools and colleges of today, and on the knowledge that you are there acquiring, on the characters that you are there building, on the bodies that you are there developing, depends the India of the New Era. For India is changing with extraordinary rapidity, as the entire world acknowledges, and you have the splendid karma of being born in the dawn of her renovated life. The responsibilities of power will fall upon your shoulders; you will have to guard your land from external attack and from internal disorder; you will have to develop her arts, her manufactures, her trade, her commerce, her agriculture, to shape her political destiny and to guide her forward evolution. How shall you discharge your mighty task unless you use well this time of preparation, this priceless time, which wasted, cannot be regained. All your life long you will go limping, if you waste these years of your adolescence...

    The body is, at present, the weak spot in the Indian Nation. It is a very liable to disease, has poor resisting power, and dies too soon, with some of the causes for this physical weakness, you can do nothing at present, but you can take your body as it is, and improve 1t...

    Another thing you should learn in your school and college days is the Joy of Service. Help those around you, and seek opportunities to help... Sometimes a school or college can start and support a night school or a school for the submerged classes; you can, in towns, visit the hospitals, write letters for patients, carry messages for them. You can start a little co-operative credit society, and help jutka-wallas, scavengers, and fishermen, to become free from debt.

    And one thing you should all do, if you are living at home; you should share your education with the ladies of your families. Teach your sisters to read and write, and any others who are willing to learn. Talk with them of public matters, of the movements going on in the outer world. Take with them pamphlets and books in the vernaculars, read to them and with them, and discuss what you read. You will soon find the charm of an educated home, of sympathy in all your interests, the sharing of your hopes and aspirations. Moreover, you will learn much as well as teach. The angles of vision of the boy and girl, of the man and woman are different, and like the two eyes of the body they supplement each other. A man and a woman together see more than either can see separately, as the two-eyed man sees more than the one-eyed, and the combined vision is truer; fuller, more reliable than that of either alone. India is losing incalculably by the lack of the feminine angle of vision, and the awakening of her daughters will be as life from the dead. As Savitri won back her husband from Yama’s noose, so shall Indian womanhood give new life to Indian manhood...

    The studies to which you should turn your attention in preparation for public life are history, political economy and logic. The history of your own country you should study, both for inspiration and for practical guidance; for a Nation is a continuum, and must build its present on its past. The India of the future will not be a copy of the West, she will sui generis, shaping herself by her own ideals, 1nd not imitating the forms of other Nations. She may learn from all while she remains Herself, Asiatic not European Oriental not Occidental, giving as well as taking, teaching as well as learning, herself and not another.

    TONY BLAIR

    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was born Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, on May 6, 1953, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Blair grew up in Durham, an industrial city in the north of England. His father, Leo Blair, a lawyer and onetime chairman of the Durham Conservative Association, suffered a stroke while campaigning for Parliament in 1963. Leo Blair’s w incapacitation and gradual recovery served as a formative incident in the life of his middle son, who would go on to refashion Britain’s Labour Party and, in 1997, become the first Labour prime minister since the Conservative revolution effected by Margaret Thatcher in 1979.

    On Thursday, November

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