Ali Velshi
speaker
554 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Ali Velshi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She was pushed across the bridge by the first black president of the United States.
She died three months after that photo was taken.
She just wanted black Americans to be able to vote, but she lived long enough to see a black man in the White House push her across the bridge upon which they had tried to break her.
This is a theater where a lot of Broadway stuff happens and they always tell you to put off your phones and don't make noise and all that stuff.
So I want you to do something that's a little counterintuitive.
I want you to reach into your pocket or your bag or wherever you keep them and take out your keys.
Take a moment.
Look at your keys.
They're the most ordinary objects in your life.
You use them every day without thinking, to get into your home, to start your car, to open the things that belong to you.
Just hold on to your keys for a moment.
I'm going to come back to them.
America was 213 years into the experiment.
For 40 years, the United States and the Soviet Union had faced each other across an ideological divide, democracy on the one side, communism on the other side.
Which idea would prevail?
In the autumn of 1989, the question was answered not by Washington,
Not by a general or a president or a weapon system.
It came from the streets.
In city after city across Eastern Europe, people who had lived their entire lives under communism simply stopped.
They stopped complying.
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