Not Many Women on List of Powerful Speeches

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

Recently I asked “Can You Suggest Examples of Powerful Speeches?”

Outcomes from this question include the list below that was suggested.  Interestingly only 2 women's names show up on the list.  Male privilege?  Likely so...historical speaking opportunities largely went to males.  Can you help round out the list with great speakers male or female?? 

Below are the responses I received

Great, moving speeches suggested:

General George Patton's address to his troops before D-Day

Sen. George Vest "Man's best friend" eulogy September 30, 1870

J.K. Rowling Harvard  commencement speech.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHGqp8lz36c

Robert Emmet's Speech from the Dock

Martin Luther King I Have a Dream,

Pres Obama Yes We Can

Pres Obama 1st inauguration,

Winston Churchill We Shall Never Surrender

BIll Clinton's A Place Called Hope

William Wilberforce address to British Parliament on the abolition of the slave trade

Randy Pausch "The Last Lecture" you tube

Martin Luther King I Have Been to the Mountaintop

Al Pacino's speech in "Any Given Sunday"

Robert F. Kennedy’s Indianapolis speech following death of MLK 1968
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg address

Recommended presenters:

Andy Dooley just YouTube him

Joyce Meyer

Tony Robbins

Lou Holtz

Joel Osteen

Collections

American Rhetoric top 100 speeches http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

Ted Talks http://www.ted.com/

Vital Speeches of the Day's Cicero Award Winners http://vsotd.com/cicero-awards

Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking you tube

William Safire's "Lend Me Your Ears." print