Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angered Democrats in March while giving a speech before a joint session of Congress in which he strongly denounced President Obama’s efforts to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran. As NBC News reports, “Six months later, a man from abroad, with an even larger following than Netanyahu, came with a […]
Sarah Silverman introduced Bernie Sanders to a Los Angeles crowd of around 27,000 people on August 10, 2015. Silverman warmed up the crowd by reclaiming the words “values” and “morals,” words she says “have been co-opted by people who wear them as shrouds to justify terrible things.” Silverman talked about Sanders’ consistency and how “he […]
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has never been one to mince words, and her fiery speech at the Massachusetts Democratic Party Convention on Saturday was no exception. Warren called on delegates to fight for Democratic Party values as they head into the upcoming election cycle, stating: “Now here we are, we’re in the presidential season and […]
Bernie Sanders’ record of anti-war activism in the 1960s and 1970s has been well-documented. As ABC News reported earlier this week, “While at the University of Chicago, he was a member of several progressive peace organizations, including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Student Peace Union” and “as a congressman and later senator, Sanders […]
One of the best known speeches by Frederick Douglass is “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” – delivered in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852. The speech, given at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was filled with biting oratory in which the abolitionist leader told his […]