Lourde’s Library
Resources
A current work in progress—please feel free to contribute!
Links to helpful lists & sites:
From the Council of Foreign Relations. Provides modules exploring the fundamental concepts in international relations
“Authoritative, accessible, and regularly updated primers on hundreds of foreign policy topics.”
Outside contributors write for and against relevant topics in this for and against section
Speeches
Resources for general inspiration
Lists & Databases of Speeches
The American Presidency Project - Spoken Addresses
American Leaders Speak: Recordings from WW1
Famous Speeches & Audio from History.com
Gifts of Speech: Women’s Speeches from Around the World
Great Speeches of the 20th Century by the Guardian
Say It Plain, Say It Loud: A Century of Great African American Speeches
Building Namesake Speeches & Bios
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The Danger of a Single Story” & bio
Mahatma Gandhi
“Quit India” & bio
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“1992 Commencement Speech” & bio
Rep. Barbara Jordan
“1976 DNC Address” & bio
Ban Ki-moon
“Youth of the World: Make Some Noise!” & bio
Dr. Martin Luther King
Yuri Kochiyama
“Then Came War” (read by Sandra Oh) & bio
Abraham Lincoln
“First Inaugural Address” & bio
Audre Lourde
“The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” & bio
Sen. John McCain
“Return to Senate Floor” & bio
Pericles
“Pericles’ Funeral Oration for the Peloponnesian War” & bio
Justice Antonin Scalia
“Constitutional Interpretation the Old Fashioned Way” & bio
Chief Seattle
“Chief Seattle’s Speech (ver. 1)” & bio
Sojourner Truth
“Ain’t I a woman?” & bio