We celebrate the greatest speeches of all time, spoken by women who have changed the world for the better.

Library to display Lincoln’s copy of cut-and-paste inaugural address WASHINGTON – In the winter of 1865, near the close of the Civil War, a haggard-looking Abraham Lincoln took a printed draft of his ...

I was fortunate when I graduated from college because the guest speaker at our ceremony was none other than Maya Angelou. Even to this day I remember the warm, thoughtful cadence in her voice and the ...

Two decades ago, Steve Jobs made a dent in the world with a moving and sensational commencement speech to Stanford graduates. You can now watch it in HD. On June 12, 2005, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs ...

There’s an old joke about hell wherein a speechwriter arrives and finds a room of writers typing miserably on computers while facing a deadline. He begs to go to Heaven instead. When he does, the ...

For the Fourth of July, Frederick Douglass‘ descendants read excerpts of his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Douglass, an abolitionist who fought for social reform in the ...

Fifth graders from Watkins Elementary School walked in Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps at the Lincoln Memorial on Tuesday, and recited his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. The MLK Day event is a ...

The excitement surrounding college graduation ceremonies leaves many future alumni wondering if they’ll remember anything beyond their name being announced, receiving their diploma, then moving their ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom's speech following the passage of Prop 50 in his home state on Tuesday night appeared to be inspired by a previous speech of his ex-wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle. Governor ...

What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? And that is a question Frederick Douglass posed 168 Julys ago in a speech to a group of abolitionists, one that's become perhaps his most famous.