[Nfb-history] favorite convention banquet speeches

[Chris Nusbaum]

That's interesting, Dave.  Was there a banquet speech that year?

 Chris

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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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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


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