Author: Dipavali Debroy
Publisher: UBS Publishers
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 379
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8125908528
Description
Famous Faces Famous speeches offers a Unique opportunity to a generation growing up now, a chance to get to know those who shaped their world with mere words.
The book is a rare treasury of quotable quotes and unforgettable speeches.
What shaped the hundred years of the 20th Century?
Who were they who swayed the world with their words?
How did Thinkers, Philosophers, Mathematician, Saints Scientists, Poets and Dictators alike, reach into the minds of men without TV, telephones, Internet or computers?
For those of us Indians, born on the other side of that all important midnight, it has always been a bit of a problem explaining away our unhistorical births, that came well into the second half of the 20th century.
Famous Faces Famous Speeches is placed in the hand of this new upcoming generation, to see the century through the eyes and words of a generation gone by…so that they too can in their turn shape the years to come.
Contents
THE FIRST QUARTER
Work and its Secret- Swami Vivekananda
Nationality -Sister Nivedita
India’s economic problems -Bal Gangadhar Tilak
The Great Crisis - Lala Lajpat Rai
The Swadeshi movement - Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Swadeshi and Swaraj -Bipin Chandra Pal
The Laws that men have made -Emmeline Pankhurst
The great pinnacle of sacrifice -David Lloyd George
Self-government for India -Sarojini Naidu
Loyalty held to be a crime -Roger Casement
Preparation for citizenship - Annie Besant
The world must be made safe for democracy - Woodrow Wilson
The Struggle must go on -Emma Goldman
While there is a lower class, I am in it - Eugene V Debs
Claim for dominion status - Madan Mohan Malaviya
American I was born -Henry Cabot Lodge
Promised land of freedom -Motilal Nehru
The tasks of the youth leagues - Vladimir Llich Lenin
Non-violence is the first article of my faith - Mahatma Gandhi
Communal harmony and nationalism - Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Civilisation and progress - Rabindranath Tagore
THE SECOND QUARTER
A Life of tragedy -Clarence Darrow
The university system - Prafulla Chandra Ray
Ascent of life - Jagadish Chandra Bose
Vision of free India - Subhas Chandra Bose
Or they crush us -Joseph Stalin
Italy! Italy! Entirely and universally fascist! - Benito Mussolini
I stake my life - Leon Trotsky
A vision of hope -Vijay Lakshmi Pandit
The demands of Germany - Adolf Hitler
Blood, toil, sweat and tears - Winston Churchill
The four freedoms -Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We will stand and fight here -Gen, Bernard Montgomery
Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah - B R Ambedkar
Our deep moral dependence - J Robert Oppenheimer
Hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos - Geoge C Marshall
Tryst with destiny - Jawaharlal Nehru
Our Independence- C Rajagopalachari
Why statistics - P C Mahalanobis
THE THIRD QUARTER
Birla Vidya Vihar - Rajendra Prasad
Old Soldiers never die - General Douglas MacArthur
Toil and sweat - Govind Vallabh Pant
Theft from those who hunger - Dwight d Eisenhower
The heroes of our future - Kwame Nkrumah
History will absolve me - Fidel Castro
Shall we choose death? -Bertrand Russell
The cult of the Individual - Nikita Khrushchev
The wind of change -Harold Macmillan
My fellow Americans -John F Kennedy
That man was Eichmann- Gideon Hausner
I have a dream- Martin Luther King
I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela
The dawn of peace -Lal Bahadur Shastri
A Tiny ripple of hope - Robert F Kennedy
Nature and human life - C V Raman
Sis my home - Dr Zakir Hussain
Foaming with much blood - Enoch Powell
America versus India - Swami Ranganathananda
Our freedom struggle - Mujibur Rahman
I cherish the memory - Jane Fonda
THE FINAL QUARTER
If I am arrested - Jayaprakash Narayan
What is the joy about? - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Foreign policy of Great Britain - Margaret Thatcher
The dream shall never die - Edward M Kennedy
A Poland which costs us nothing - Pope John Paul II
A monstrous carbuncle - Prince Charles
How futures are built - Mario Cuomo
Each drop of my blood - Indira Gandhi
Great sisterhood of womankind - Aruna Asaf Ali
General & complete disarmament - Rajiv Gandhi
Let us not be disunited - Aung San Suu Kyi
United States of Europe - Helmut Kohl
What is my single life worth? - Salman Rushdie
You did unto me - Mother Teresa
Entering the 21st century - Mikhail Gorbachev
Policing with people -Kiran Bedi
Simply because they are women - Hillary Rodham Clinton
Let history be history - Dalai Lama
Looking back at history with pride - I K Gujral
Eulogy to Princess Diana - Earl Charles Spencer
The IAS Officer is junk - T N Seshan
A third millennium - Benazir Bhutto
People power - Corzano C Aquino
The economics of poverty - Amartya Kumar Sen
Planet in Crisis - Swami Chinmayananda
Economic Liberalisation and Social Liberation - Atal Behari Vajpayee
An exciting Era - William H Gates
Challenges and Opportunities for Health Leaders of Today - Gro Harlem Brundtland
The Millennium Report - Kofi Annan