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Strong voices fifteen American speeches worth knowing

"A collection of speeches that showcases the voices of those at the reins of power and of those who are not. Read the original words, sometimes abridged and sometimes in their entirety, that have shaped our cultural fabric. Introductions provide historical context and critical insights into the mean...

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Other Authors: Bolden, Tonya (Editor), Roberts, Cokie (writer of foreword.), Velasquez, Eric (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Speeches, addresses, etc., American > Juvenile nonfiction.
Speeches > Juvenile.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Give me liberty or give me death!" / Patrick Henry
  • Farewell address / George Washington
  • "We never quarrel about religion" / Red Jacket
  • "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" / Frederick Douglass
  • "I am a woman's rights" / Sojourner Truth
  • Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln
  • "Citizenship in a Republic" / Theodore Roosevelt
  • "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" / Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • "Farewell to baseball" / Lou Gehrig
  • "On the blacklist all our lives" / Langston Hughes
  • "We choose to go to the moon" / John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • "I have a dream" / Martin Luther King Jr.
  • " I question America" / Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Address to the Commonwealth Club of California, 1984 / Cesar Chavez
  • "Women's rights are human rights" / Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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