70's
“Those who have been left out, we will try to bring in. Those left behind, we will help to, catch up.”
Richard M. Nixon- Second Inaugural Adress
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Ronald Reagan, 1987 Berlin Wall Speech
"I'd like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be also free."
Rosa Parks
"You are either with us or against us."
George W. Bush
"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."
Malala Yousafzai, 2013 Speech to the United Nations
"There is so much suffering, so much hatred, so much misery, and we with our prayer, with our sacrifice are beginning at home. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do."
Mother Teresa- Love Begins at Home
"Read my lips: No new taxes."
George H. W. Bush
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies."
Abraham Lincoln (1861) (referenced by Bill Clinton in 1998)
"The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners."
Bill Clinton
"I am here to stand up for their rights, to raise their voice"
Malala Yousafzai's
“the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.”
Jimmy Carter- Crisis of Confidence
"You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning."
Margaret Thatcher, 1980 Speech to Conservative Party Conference
"The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come."
Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inaugural Address
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Barack Obama, 2008 Victory Speech
“When They Go Low, We Go High”
Michelle Obama, 2016
“Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and that affection without which liberty and even life are but dreary things.”
Barbara C. Jordan- Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good?
"I am an optimist, and I believe that people are capable of greatness, even when their leaders are not."
Bill Clinton
"I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread."
Adlai Stevenson, Address at the United Nations
"Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us...Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America. There's not a Black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America."
Barack Obama
"Gender equality is your issue too"
Emma Watson
"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."
Nelson Mandela
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Ronald Reagan
"We are the ones we have been waiting for."
June Jordan, Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint
"We have it within our power to make our children's world safe for generations to come."
Al Gore
"I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth."
Greta Thunberg