"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Delivered: September 4, 2024
"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."
John D. Rockefeller
Delivered: April 12, 2023
"They said you'd really have to be something to be like Babe Ruth. But Babe Ruth was an American player. What we needed was a Puerto Rican player they could say that about, someone to look up to and try to equal."
Roberto Clemente
Delivered: September 29, 2020
"We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens."
A. Philip Randolph
Delivered: May 11, 2021
"I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film."
Jean Reno
Delivered: December 25, 2020