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THE GREATEST SPEECES IN THE WORLD

· William Lyon Phelps - The Pleasure of Books (1933)

· Pope John Paul II - At Israel's Holocaust Memorial (2000)

· Pope Benedict XVI - "In This Place of Horror" (2006)

· Ronald Reagan - Address to British Parliament (1982)

· Ronald Reagan - On the 40th Anniversary of D-Day (1984)

· Ronald Reagan - On the Challenger Disaster (1986)

· Ronald Reagan - "Tear Down this Wall" (1987)

· Maximilien Robespierre - Festival of the Supreme Being (1794)

· Franklin D. Roosevelt - First Inaugural Address (1933)

· Franklin D. Roosevelt - Third Inaugural Address (1941)

· Franklin D. Roosevelt - For a Declaration of War (1941)

· Franklin D. Roosevelt - D-Day Prayer (1944)

· Gerhard Schröder - "I Express My Shame" (2005)

· Elizabeth Cady Stanton - The Destructive Male (1868)

· George Graham Vest - Tribute to Dogs (c1855)

· George Washington - Prevents the Revolt of his Officers (1783)

· Elie Wiesel - The Perils of Indifference (1999)

· Woodrow Wilson - The Fourteen Points (1918)

I am the First Accused.

I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Arts and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg for a number of years in partnership with Oliver Tambo. I am a convicted prisoner serving five years for leaving the country without a permit and for inciting people to go on strike at the end of May 1961.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion made by the State in its opening that the struggle in South Africa is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

.......................................................cont. reading on the blog "I am prepared to die"

Steven Bantu Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977)

"Black man, you are on your own."
Slogan coined by Steve Biko for the South African Student's Organisation, SASO.

"So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior."
As quoted in the Boston Globe, 25 October 1977.

"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway."
On Death, I Write What I Like, 1978

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
Speech in Cape Town, 1971

"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."
From Steve Biko's evidence given at the SASO/BPC trial, 3 May 1976.

"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude."
The Definition of Black Consciousness, I Write What I Like, 1978.

"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being."
The Definition of Black Consciousness, I Write What I Like, 1978.

Enshrine Incites

Posted by Hailie Nene on Saturday, December 8, 2012

PRESENCE

IN-spiration: Presence takes nothing for granted. Presence is the living embodiment of now - a constant state of acceptance of the present moment – which is the greatest gift life has to offer. Presence is the expanded state of awareness you can experience if you tune into what is right here, right now. Birth is the past, death is the future, and life is now. Now you are alive. Presence is the sense you have of this aliveness; it is your absolute experience of this aliveness. It permeates you to the core of your being. Your presence radiates outwards touching all and everyone with whom you come in contact with invigorating life force. Adversity activates the conscious awareness in a manner that draws your total focus to the living moment of reality. Presence is an aura of grandness that expands life and magnifies it. Presence is the embodiment of the authentic self, it is supreme self love and acceptance all rolled into one. Presence throbs with life and revels in the grandeur of the living, breathing moment. Presence is aware of the state of grace that being human is. Presence pervades all things and it is the spirit that animates the flesh. Challenge is an alarm sounding, signalling an awakening to new ways of being in the world. Challenge offers the gift of awakening, of embracing each day, each moment, fully, and living life with eyes wide open. Presence does not dream of the past or the future, it finds deep gratitude for and appreciation of the now. Presence savours every experience and circumstance as it is for what it is. Presence does not resist, it does not judge and it does not wish for what is to be other than what it is. Presence does not try to kill time with cheap entertainment. Presence does not try to dull the moment with drugs and inebriations. Presence does not seek petty escapisms. Presence is life’s awareness of itself – so what would it seek to escape? Presence does not understand “No.” Presence is an attitude of being; it is “yes, yes, and again yes,” to whatever is – right here and right now.

IN-sight: Sit quietly and contemplate the following:

• Are you in the presence of life and is life present within you?

• Can you accept the role adversity is playing in teaching you to become more conscious, aware, and awake?

• In what ways do your challenges offer you the opportunity to be more conscious of the now?

Affirmations:

• I am wide awake.

• I live each day to the full.

• I do not dwell on the past or the future, I live fully in the now.

Presence is life’s awareness of itself.

Enshrine Incites content copyright: Lanon Carl Prigge 2011

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Written in 2012 by Saba Hussain

I shot an arrow into the air...it fell to earth, I knew not where , so swiftly it flew, the sight could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air...it fell to earth, I knew no where, far who has sight so keen & strong that it can follow the flight of song?

Long long afterwards, in an oak I found the arrow still unbroken & the song, from the beginning to the end....I found again the song in the hearth of a friend.....the best friend is like a 4-leaf clover hard to find but lucky to have..........Ymmy

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