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1.I thought that people here had not forgotten the disaster the city had suffered.
2.The case had come down upon me unexpectedly and violently; I was suddenly engulfed by the whole affair.
3.I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. I can become what I am only in America and I am grateful and will never forget this.
4.In recalling the hardship and suffering and the successes and victories which the black people had gone through but were not limited to the black people,we were filled with confidence and did not need to feel ashamed of the past. The past is food for study for all people and a starting point for the building of a bright future.
5. Although I was not so naive as to think the racial issue could be solved through one election, I did believe that if blacks and whites could work together, they could move ahead to make the union more perfect. Obama was preparing for the following part: how they could move ahead.
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1. Obama began the speech with a quote from the Constitution for two purposes. One is to show where the title came from. The other is to appeal to the audience because, according to American political scientists, the American people worship the Constitution, regarding it as a sacred document like the Bible.
2.Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) was a British statesman, writer and orator. A political conservative, Churchill was a Member of Parliament for 63 years and held many important government posts between 1919 and 1955. He is regarded as one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century. He was Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, and Minister of Defense (1940-1945). As the British leader during World War II, Churchill braced his allies all over the world with vitality, boldness and confidence in defeating Nazi Germany. He led Britain from near defeat to victory. During the war Churchill made many inspiring speeches that aroused the courage and hope of the British people as well as peoples in European countries occupied by the Nazi troops. About these speeches, Churchill said in 1954, "I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.” After the war he served as Leader of the opposition (1945-1951), and became Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury again (1951-1955). He retired in 1955 from his long political career. In a speech given in Fulton, Missouri in 1946, Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain," warning Western countries of the Soviet Union's expansionist tendencies. From his early days, Churchill was a prolific writer of history, politics and biography. Among these works are The Second World War (in six volumes) (1948-1954) and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (in four volumes) (1956-1958). In 1953 Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.