
A Defence of Labor Before Congress
http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/lewis_ah_q27.ram
David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel

The Declaration of Independance of the State of Israel
The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people - the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe - was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully privileged member of the community of nations.
Survivors of the Nazi holocaust in Europe, as well as Jews from other parts of the world, continued to migrate to Eretz-Israel, undaunted by difficulties, restrictions and dangers, and never ceased to assert their right to a life of dignity, freedom and honest toil in their national homeland.
In the Second World War, the Jewish community of this country contributed its full share to the struggle of the freedom- and peace-loving nations against the forces of Nazi wickedness and, by the blood of its soldiers and its war effort, gained the right to be reckoned among the peoples who founded the United Nations.
This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable. This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State.
ACCORDINGLY WE, MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S COUNCIL, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ERETZ-ISRAEL AND OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT, ARE HERE ASSEMBLED ON THE DAY OF THE TERMINATION OF THE BRITISH MANDATE OVER ERETZ-ISRAEL AND, BY VIRTUE OF OUR NATURAL AND HISTORIC RIGHT AND ON THE STRENGTH OF THE RESOLUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HEREBY DECLARE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A JEWISH STATE IN ERETZ-ISRAEL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
A.Philip Randolph,President Emeritus of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Founder of the A.Philip Randolph Institute

On The Struggle for Racial Equality
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ra_archive/speech_226.ram
The March for Jobs and Freedom
http://129.105.203.21/civilrights/march1963/randolph.ram
Joseph N. Welch, General Counsel for the Army of the United States

(Army-McCarthy Hearings.Mr.Welch is at left.)
"Sir,At Long Last,Have You Left No Sense of Decency"
http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/McCarthy_attack.ram
http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/welsch_rebuttal.ram
Justice William O. Douglas

"Keeper of the Conscience"
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ra_archive/speech_71.ram
President John F. Kennedy

The Inaugural Address
http://www.americanpresidents.org/ram/amp110899_4.ram
Berlin:"Ich Bin Ein Berliner"
http://www.americanpresidents.org/ram/amp110899_7.ram
American University:"We Are All Mortal"
http://www.americanpresidents.org/ram/amp110899_12.ram
Rev.Dr.Martin Luther King,Jr.

March on Washington:”I Have A Dream”
http://www.earthstation1.com/Civil_Rights/MLK/MLK630828Video.ram
Detroit:”I Am A Drum Major for Justice”
http://129.105.203.21/mlk/drummajor-for-justice.ram
Memphis:"I Have Been To The Mountaintop"
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ra_archive/speech_399.ram
Walter P. Reuther,President of the United Auto Workers of America

Harvard Law School Address:Labor and the Priorities for Survival
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/scripts/rammaker.asp?s=bcisbcis&dir=forum&file=Reuther
Labor Day Address
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ra_archive/speech_243.ram
Sen.Robert F. Kennedy

On the 100th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
http://129.105.203.21/jfk/library_misc/MR69-9.ram
On A Visit to Poor Blacks in Mississippi
http://www.earthstation1.com/Kennedys/BobbyKennedyVisitsPoorBlacksMississippi65.ram
Announcement of Presidential Candidacy
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ra_archive/speech_164.ram
On the Assasination of The Rev. Martin Luther King,Jr.:The Indianapolis Ghetto Address
http://129.105.203.21/jfk/library_misc/item8.ram
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy

Eulogy at the Funeral of Sen.Robert F. Kennedy
http://www.chicago-law.net/speeches/eulogy.ram
"The Cause Endures":1980 Democratic National Convention
http://www.historyplace.com/sounds/ted-dream.wav
Sen.Abraham Ribicoff

"No Gestapo in the Streets":Address to the 1968 Democratic National Convention
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ra_archive/speech_475.ram
Bernadette Devlin

"I Did It Because It Was Neccessary"
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ra_archive/speech_530.ram
John Forbes Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against The War

"To Help In The Turning"
"We call this investigation the Winter Soldier Investigation. The term Winter Soldier is a play on words of Thomas Paine's in 1776 when he spoke of the Sunshine Patriots and summertime soldiers who deserted at Valley Forge because the going was rough."
"We who have come here to Washington have come here because we feel we have to be winter soldiers now. We could come back to this country, we could be quiet, we could hold our silence, we could not tell what went on in Vietnam, but we feel because of what threatens this country, not the reds, but the crimes which we are committing that threaten it, that we have to speak out."
"We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
"We are here in Washington to make more clear than ever our own determination to undertake one last mission - to search out and destroy the last vestige of this barbaric war, to pacify our own hearts, to conquer the hate and fear that have driven this country these last ten years and more. So when thirty years from now our brothers go down the street without a leg, without an arm, or a face, and small boys ask why, we will be able to say "Vietnam" and not mean a desert, not a filthy obscene memory, but mean instead where America finally turned and where soldiers like us helped it in the turning."
The Hon.Abba Eban,Foreign Minister of the State of Israel

The Yom Kippur War:Address to the United Nations
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ra_archive/speech_78.ram
Rep.Barbara Jordan

"My Faith in the Constitution"
http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/bjordan_ah_q25.ram
Keynote Address:1976 Democratic National Convention
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ra_archive/speech_151.ram
The Hon.Daniel Patrick Moynihan,U.S.Ambassador to the United Nations

Condemnation of the Zionism/Racism Resolution at the United Nations
"It would be tempting to see in this propaganda nothing more than bigotry of a quite traditional sort that can, sooner or later, be overcome. But the anti-Israel, anti-Zionist campaign is not uninformed bigotry, it is conscious politics. Further, this fact of world politics creates altogether new problems for those interested in the fate of democacies in the world, and of Israel in the Middle East. It is not merely that our adversaries have commenced an effort to destroy the legitimacy of a kindred democracy through the incessant repetition of the Zionist-racist lie. It is that others can come to believe it also. Americans among them."
"In logic, the State of Israel could be, or could become, many things, theoretically including many undesirable things. But it could not be and could not become racist unless it ceased to be Zionist. There will be time enough to contemplate the harm this act will have done the United Nations. Historians will do that for us, and it is sufficient for the moment only to note one foreboding fact: A great evil has been loosed upon the world."
“The United States...does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act."
The Hon.Chaim Herzog,Ambassador to the United Nations from the State of Israel

The Entebbe Rescue:Address to the United Nations
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ra_archive/speech_367.ram
Simon Wiesenthal

The Harvard Law School Address:The Importance of Memory
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/scripts/rammaker.asp?s=bcisbcis&dir=forum&file=Simon
Elie Wiesel
"The Perils of Indifference"
http://www.historyplace.com/sounds/presidents/thp-wiesel.ram