English Alive! (YouTube video clips)

English is the universal language for commerce and civil aviation, and is known for its creative power and malleability. Enjoy the following YouTube clips, selected for either their historical significance, celebration of life, or both.

Watch the official music video for In The End by Linkin Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4

Learn about the political and social context behind Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have A Dream" speech, the rhetorical devices that helped its concepts resonate, and its effect on the broader Civil Rights Movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IB0i6bJIjw

Education Is The One Of The Blessings Of Life

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of Women and children in her native Seat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXZPJ8yGbwU

At midnight on the morning of November 19, 2013, Abraham Lincoln emerged from the White House in the plaza of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum to become the first person to deliver the Address on the 150th Anniversary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQnNbuJ81sY

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6jplPkbe8g

Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit" Live 1959

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk

John F. Kennedy's greatest Speech on Peace

"No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable, and we believe they can do it again...And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RclaV_3_eOA

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

President Ronald Reagan at Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany, June 12, 1987. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IguMXrgfrg8

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."

Damian Lewis as Antony in Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare:

https://humilityanddoxology.com/shakespeare-monologues/