Beautiful last words

Sunday, October 29, 2006


6:01 PM - 9/11 this one makes me truly sad...
Current mood: ambivalent

What are some truly moving speeches that have been delivered in the past?

With the exclusion of those such as MLK's "I have a Dream." I'm thinking more along the lines of the somewhat obscure. Court statements welcome.

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In a radio address recorded in the waning moments of his presidency, Chilean President Salvador Allende remained defiant, refusing to surrender his power despite an onslaught of bombs and bullets that were ripping apart the presidential palace in Santiago.

///Nat SOUND Allende radio address 9/11/73 ///

"I will not resign," Allende vowed. "I will pay for the loyalty of the people with my life."



In a radio address recorded in the waning moments of his presidency, Chilean President Salvador Allende remained defiant, refusing to surrender his power despite an onslaught of bombs and bullets that were ripping apart the presidential palace in Santiago.

///Nat SOUND Allende radio address 9/11/73 ///

"I will not resign," Allende vowed. "I will pay for the loyalty of the people with my life."

It is reported that he took his own life before the soldiers could take him alive but one may also contemplate that it was not he who took his own life but perhaps they who never inteded on taking him alive especially when considering the following:

The bloody coup that ended the life of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973 put General Augusto Pinochet into power, opening a deadly and dark chapter in Chile's history. During Pinochet's reign, approximately 3000 people "disappeared" and thousands of others were tortured and exiled.

Another not neccessarily moving your heart to best of places speech moving you to the edge of your seat...

September 11, 1990 (11 years before 9/11) was when George Herbert Walker Bush gave his famous "New World Order" speech.

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective — a New World Order — can emerge ... A hundred generations have searched for this elusive path to peace, while a thousand wars raged across the span of human endeavor. Today that new world is struggling to be born, a world quite different from the one we've known. A world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle. A world in which nations recognize the shared responsibility for freedom and justice. A world where the strong respect the rights of the weak.
- George H.W. Bush, 911/1990
Source(s):

VOA News Report
globalsecurity.org
http://www.oilempire.us