Historiens 20 beste taler

Vi har sett på historien, og på talene som har påvirket oss mest. Selvfølgelig er det slik at hvor man er plassert i verden vil påvirke utvalget av taler som velges. Eksempelvis kan man si at i en verden preget av andre religioner så ville ikke vår førsteplass vært nummer 1. Ei heller er det sikkert at talene som har påvirket vårt samfunn gjennom kriger og annet ville vært like viktige.

Selve rangeringen, og hvilke taler som er med - kan selvfølgelig også diskuteres.

1. Jesus - Bergprekenen

Hvorfor: Kanskje de ordene til Jesus, enten man tror på han som Guds sønn eller ikke, som flest har hørt.

Hva sa han?

Salige er de ydmyke, for de skal arve jorden.

2. Alexander den Store - Hydaspestalen

Hvorfor: Styrkene til Alexander hadde kommet til India etter et tiår med kamper. India (for øvrig i dagens Pakistan) virket uovervinnelig.

Hva sa han?

Jeg vil gjøre det slik at de som blir vil bli misunnet av de som drar.

3. Patrick Henry - Give me Liberty or Give me Death

Hvorfor: Skulle man mobilisere mot britene? Kjempe mot? Selvfølgelig. Året var 1775. Uten denne talen ville det kanskje ikke ha vært ett USA.

Hva sa han?

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! — I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

4. Sokrates - unnskyldning

Hvorfor: Sokrates kunne å ordlegge seg, og kanskje ikke mer enn da han skulle "unnskylde seg" for å ødelegge framtidens ungdom. Den versjonen vi som regel forholder oss til er skrevet ned av Platon.

Hva sa han?

Tiden for å si farvel har kommet, og vi må gå hver vår vei - jeg skal dø, dere skal leve. Hva som er best vet bare Gud.

Her er alt som lydbok:

5. Winston Churchill - We shall fight them on the beaches

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Hvorfor: Europa var i ferd med å gi opp. Tyskerne virket uovervinnelige.

Hva sa han?

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

6. Chief Joseph - Surrender Speech

Hvorfor: Fordi Joseph visste at han var den siste av en døende rase.

Hva sa han?

I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my Chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.

7. Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Adress

Hvorfor: En av de mest poengterte taler noensinne. Talen ble holdt 19. november 1863 - for 150 år siden.

Hva sa han?

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

8. John F. Kennedy - Inaugural Adress

Hvorfor: Han ga håp om en ny verden

Hva sa han?

My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country

9. Susan B. Anthony - On Woman's Right to Vote

Hvorfor: Hennes tale inspirerte kvinner over hele verden. Året var 1873.

Hva sa hun?

Annonsørinnhold

Dette er årets beste påskeegg

I stand before you to-night, under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last Presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote.

10. Martin Luther King - I Have a Dream

Hvorfor: Fordi verden fortsatt ikke var rettferdig da han sa det.

Hva sa han?

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

11. Ronald Reagen ved Brandenburger Tor

Hvorfor: Isen var i ferd med å smelte i den kalde krigen. Reagen satte på hårføneren for å fjerne siste rest.

Hva sa han?

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

12. Urban II, 1095

Hvorfor: Med denne talen startet han årevis med krig mellom kristne og muslimer, og hans ord har blitt gjenbrukt mange ganger. Som bakgrunn for krig. Hellig krig.

Hva sa han?

You have thus far waged unjust wars, at one time and another; you have brandished mad weapons to your mutual destruction, for no other reason than covetousness and pride, as a result of which you have deserved eternal death and sure damnation. We now hold out to you wars which contain the glorious reward of martyrdom, which will retain that title of praise now and forever

13. Steve Jobs - You've got to find what you love

Hvorfor: Steve Jobs har skapt mye av vår digitale verden, men hans ord om verden er mer enn bare inspirerende.

Hva sa han?

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

14. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose - Give me Blood and I will give you freedom

Hvorfor: Ghandi oppfordrer til en ikke-voldelig linje, mens Bose holdt en tale som på mange måter har blitt opprøreres valgspråk etterpå.

Hva sa han?

India is calling Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we shall carve our way through the enemy's ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr's death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road that will bring our Army to Delhi.

15. Thabo Mbeki - I Am African

Hvorfor: Da Sør-Afrika fikk en ny grunnlov uten apartheid så holdt Thabo Meki en tale som var mer som et dikt. Han var da visepresident.

Hva sa han:

I am an African.

I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.

My body has frozen in our frosts and in our latter day snows. It has thawed in the warmth of our sunshine and melted in the heat of the midday sun. The crack and the rumble of the summer thunders, lashed by startling lightning, have been a cause both of trembling and of hope.

16. King George VI - The King's Speech

Hvorfor: En konge som hadde problemer med å snakke holdt en tale for å samle et folk. Og lyktes med det.

Hva sa han?

In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.

17. Nikita Krutsjov - Individkulten

Hvorfor: En tale som oppsummerte mye av hva kommunismen stod for.

Hva sa han?

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual once and for all. We must correct the views connected with the cult in history, philosophy and sciences, and continue systematically the work done by the party's central committee during the last years, a work characterised by collective leadership and self-criticism.

18. Otto von Bismarck - Blod og jern

Hvorfor: En tale som var grunnlaget for krig. Poengtert i en kort og effektiv tale. Samme hva man mener om selve innholdet.

Hva sa han?

De store problemene i vår tid vil ikke løses av taler og avgjørelser fra flertallet

19. William Faulkner - Takketale for Nobelprisen i litteratur 1950

Hvorfor: Faulkner var en av de største forfatterne i det 20.århundret, men snakket sjeldent offentlig. I 1950 var verden et sted preget av atomfrykt og en gryende iskald krig.

Hva sa han?

I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

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20. Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture

Hvorfor: Randy Pausch fikk beskjed om at han skulle dø. Dette var hans siste forelesning. Før du klager over at en forelesning ikke er en tale så se videoen under.

Hva sa han?

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people

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