(2/2) Newspeak 07/10/2021 - America's greatest speeches

This is the second half of our special 2-hour Freshers Week Newspeak show. James Hunt & Oli Crisp joined Theo for a deep dive into American political history, discussing the very heart of America through the speeches that made it. This is an intense, genuine reflection on the world's premier power, just as that power becomes increasingly fractured. This is freedom of speech going live! Theo reads out the relevant sections on air, but for further reading, the speeches are: 1) 'Give me liberty or give me death!' - Patrick Henry, 1775 https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/ 2) The Hypocrisy of American Slavery - Frederick Douglass, 1852 https://www.historyplace.com/speeches/douglass.htm 3) The Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln, 1863 http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm 4) [dropped due to time] Inaugural Address - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933 https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/froos1.asp 5) 'I Have A Dream' - Martin Luther King, 1963 (though not the 'I Have A Dream' lines) https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/speech/dream.htm The site at ht-tps://constitutioncenter.org/blog/looking-at-10-great-speeches-in-american-history is also helpful.