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Robert F!. Kennedy's "On the Mindless Menace of Violence" speech which was delivered the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr, and two months before his own assassination is incredibly eloquent and profound to me, and as relevant today as it was then!.

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This is a time of shame and sorrow!. It is not a day for politics!. I have saved this one opportunity, my only event of today, to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives!.

It is not the concern of any one race!. The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown!. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed!. No one - no matter where he lives or what he does - can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed!. And yet it goes on and on and on in this country of ours!.

Why!? What has violence ever accomplished!? What has it ever created!? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet!.

No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders!. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason!.

Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded!.

"Among free men," said Abraham Lincoln, "there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and those who take such appeal are sure to lose their cause and pay the costs!."

Yet we seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our common humanity and our claims to civilization alike!. We calmly accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far-off lands!. We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment!. We make it easy for men of all shades of sanity to acquire whatever weapons and ammunition they desire!.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others!. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home!. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them!.

Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul!.

For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night!. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay!. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors!. This is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter!.

This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men!. And this too afflicts us all!.

I have not come here to propose a set of specific remedies nor is there a single set!. For a broad and adequate outline we know what must be done!. When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies, to be met not with cooperation but with conquest; to be subjugated and mastered!.

We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city, but not a community; men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in common effort!. We learn to share only a common fear, only a common desire to retreat from each other, only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force!. For all this, there are no final answers!.

Yet we know what we must do!. It is to achieve true justice among our fellow citizens!. The question is not what programs we should seek to enact!. The question is whether we can find in our own midst and in our own hearts that leadership of humane purpose that will recognize the terrible truths of our existence!.

We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others!. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others!. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or enriched by hatred or revenge!.

Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land!. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution!.

But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can!.

Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something!. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again!.

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It is the speech featured in the movie "Bobby" that I SO highly recommend!.

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4 June 1940

"I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone!.

At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do!. That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government-every man of them!. That is the will of Parliament and the nation!.

The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength!.

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail!.

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

the best ever speech is given by "subash chandra bose" before the independance of my motherland "INDIA"
which was "you give me blood i will give u freedom "!. it was so much patriotic,energetic!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

MLK Jr!.'s I have a dream speech and JFK's inauguration speech where he asks "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

there's many speeches i can't count on it!.but the most inspirational speech is Swami Vivekananda's speech at Chicago!. that was great!!
but there's many more, many more !!! Www@QuestionHome@Com

Important but more inspirational I think would be John !.F!. Kennedy's
speech about power narrows man's concern !. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Edward Gough Whitlam on the steps of Parliament House on Nov!. 11th 1975 giving his "nothing will save the governor general speech"Www@QuestionHome@Com

Hitler "My Patience is now at the end"

Churchill "Tear, Sweak, Blood"

Zhuge Liang "I will never reat"

Jesus "Bless upon poor people"

Ghandi "No Violence"

Buddha "10 steps to the salvation"Www@QuestionHome@Com

I believe an inspirational speech was by Martin Luther King, about black rights!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

lately i think its the guy with 'the last lecture' the professor that died recently!. His speech makes u just want to go out and skip in a flower field!.!.
but history wise!.!.!.good luck bc history bores me sorryWww@QuestionHome@Com

It's one by JFK that you will never see in the media =)

http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=Gpmi7dBet!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The St!. Crispin's Day speech in Henry V by William Shakespeare!. Makes you want to conquer the French!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I Had a Dream - Martin Luther King Jr!.
Gettysburg Address - Abraham LincolnWww@QuestionHome@Com

When George Bush was making a speech and started saying: "I like mountain biking, skiing, hiking!.!.!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

I have a dream speech DUH!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Do I even need to tell you this!?

Martin Luther King - I Had A DreamWww@QuestionHome@Com

i have a dream martin luther kingWww@QuestionHome@Com