[Nfb-history] favorite convention banquet speeches

[David Andrews]

These are all great speeches -- but interestingly enough, as I 
recall, "The Nature of Independence," wasn't actually a banquet 
speech -- it was given at convention in 1993 I believe.

Dave

At 10:07 AM 6/29/2011, you wrote:
>Hi Chris,
>
>Here are some of my favorite NFB Speeches:
>Blindness: Handicap or Characteristic?
>Blindness: A Left-Handed Dissertation
>The Nature of Independence
>These are all Jernigan speeches.
>
>Ellen
>
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>Hi Ryan,
>
>Are these the "Is the Public Against Us," "Is Literature Against 
>Us," and "Is History Against Us," trilogy? Here's another one that I 
>learned a lot about historically: "The Lessons of History"
>given by Jernigan in 1980.  Let me rephrase my original question to 
>get a little more out of this discussion.  :) Don't get me wrong, 
>you're all giving me great information! But here's another
>question: what are your favorite speeches from each President, 
>tenBroek, Jernigan, and Maurer?
>
>  Chris
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>From: "Ryan O" <ryano218 at comcast.net
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>Chris, Mike is towing the party line, which isn't really wrong I 
>guess.  Some have said that once you've heard a banquet speech, 
>you've heard them all.
>There's a kernel of truth in this idea.  Even Jernigan admitted that 
>the banquet speeches were more or less similar in their content and purpose.
>However, you can learn a lot about where we were historically by 
>listening to each speech.  A good example of this is, "A Corner of Time,"
>from 1981,
>which high-lights our struggles with various individuals and 
>organizations who opposed us.
>
>Another departure from the standard formula came in a trilogy of 
>speeches from the mid-1970's in which Jernigan chose a specific 
>focus for his premise.  Those are some of my favorites.
>
>
>
>RyanO