MARC My Words! Elements of Speaking for Technical Services Librarians April 26, 2006
EXERCISES 2 & 3
Introductions
John F. Kennedy: Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association—1960)
“While the so-called religious issue is necessarily and properly the chief topic here tonight, I want to emphasize from the outset that I believe that we have far more critical issues in the 1960 campaign.”
(Caesar Chavez “The Mexican American and the Church”—1968)
“The place to begin is with our own experience with the Church in the strike that has gone on for thirty-one months in Delano. For in Delano the Church has been involved with the poor in a unique way that should stand as a symbol to other communities.”
(Mark Antony’s funeral oration for Caesar)
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
(Mark Twain: Books and Burglers—1908)
“Suppose this library had been in operation a few weeks ago, and the burglars who happened along and broke into my house—taking a lot of things they didn't need, and for that matter which I didn't need—had first made entry into this institution.”
(Mary Fisher: 1992 Republican National Convention Address)
“Less than three months ago at platform hearings in Salt Lake City, I asked the Republican Party to lift the shroud of silence which has been draped over the issue of HIV and AIDS. I have come tonight to bring our silence to an end. I bear a message of challenge, not self-congratulation. I want your attention, not your applause.”
Conclusions
(Carrie Chapman Catt speech before Congress—1917)
“Woman suffrage is coming—you know it. Will you, Honorable Senators and Members of the House of Representatives, help or hinder it?”
(General Douglas MacArthur: Farewell Address to Congress—1951)
“… ‘old soldiers never die; they just fade away.’ And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.”
(Barbara Jordan: Statement on the Articles of Impeachment—1974)
“We know the question. We should now forthwith proceed to answer the question. It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision. I yield back the balance of my time, Mr. Chairman.”
(Huey P. Long: “ Every Man a King”—1934)
“I thank you, my friends, for your kind attention, and I hope you will enroll with us, take care of your own work in the work of this Government, and share or help in our Share Our Wealth society. I thank you.”
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