now *that* was oratory

"From Seneca to Selma to Stonewall..." I was downstairs listening on the radio, Arthur upstairs watching the TV, but we both felt that was the best line. I actually cheered while chopping kale. The power of 3, alliteration, and the assumption that the educated populace would recognize the place names for their respective historical importance in the continuity of struggles for equal rights - nothing else in the speech came close.