Word: speech
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...President Obama visited our sister college down Mass. Ave. last week, giving a speech on clean energy and reminding Techies that Nobel Prizes do exist outside chemistry...
...think that it’s disturbing that someone who so openly advocates such racist policies is asked to speak here," said Rashid. "This isn’t what freedom of speech is about...
...personal and artistic act of resistance against those forces both within Islam and outside of it that seek to deny such nuances, to silence the voices of mystics, and to distill the diversity of Islamic piety into something essential, unitary, and uniform,” Quraeshi said in her speech at the opening of “Sacred Spaces...
...Earlier this month, Republic of the Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso included a 53-word excerpt from a speech Mandela is said to have given on a visit to the Republic of the Congo as a foreword to his autobiography, Straight Speaking for Africa. In it Mandela praises Nguesso as "not only one of our great African leaders ... but also one of those who gave their unconditional support to our fighters' demand for freedom, and who worked tirelessly to free oppressed peoples from their chains and help restore their dignity and hope...
...coup). "Mr. Mandela has neither read the book nor written a foreword for it," the foundation said in a statement. "We condemn this brazen abuse of Mr. Mandela's name." Officials of the Republic of the Congo - also known as Congo-Brazzaville - said the remarks came from a speech Mandela gave at a banquet in 1996, though the foundation said it has no record of it. (See Nelson Mandela's eight lessons of leadership...