Oratory - what we heard

Many thanks to all who came out for Oratory night. Is there a better way to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. than to gather to share and discuss great thoughts? I suspect not.

A round-up of readings:

Dann Brown - Lyman Trumball "Speech at a Populist Meeting" & William Jennings Bryan "Speech Concluding Debate on the Chicago Platform," July 9, 1896
Jed Barnum - Harvey Milk speech on being elected to the San Francisco board of supervisors, 1977
Gina Heeren - Toni Morrison's 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature lecture
Aaron Devine - Senator Eugene McCarthy (D, MN) "These times, people say, are out of joint" speech nominating Adlai Stevenson for President at the DNC in 1960
heather hughes - Winston Churchill's "Give us the tools" speech 9 Feb 1941 & "This is your victory" speech 8 May 1945
Susannah Lamey - Wislawa Szymborska's 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature lecture
Valerie Thompson - selected by Amy Stepsis - Steve Job's Stanford University commencement address in 2005
Jack Miller - Judge Noah "Soggy" Sweat, "The Whiskey Speech," 1952
Brendan Burns - Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech/guitar accompaniment, August 28, 1963


Special thanks to Vessela for recording assistance. More awesome to come!