American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for Young People

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Suzanne McIntire
John Wiley & Sons, 2002 M07 15 - 304 páginas
The history of the United States has been characterized by ferventidealism, intense struggle, and radical change. And for everycritical, defining moment in American history, there were thosewhose impassioned voices rang out, clear and true, and whose wordscompelled the minds and hearts of all who heard them. When PatrickHenry declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death!", when MartinLuther King Jr. said, "I have a dream", Americans listened and wereprofoundly affected. These speeches stand today as testaments tothis great nation made up of individuals with bold ideas andunshakeable convictions.

The American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for YoungPeople includes over 100 speeches by founding fathers, patriots,Native American and African American leaders, abolitionists,women's suffrage and labor activists, writers, athletes, and othersfrom all walks of life, featuring inspiring and unforgettablespeeches by such notable speakers as:

Patrick Henry * Thomas Jefferson * Tecumseh * Frederick Douglass *Sojourner Truth * Abraham Lincoln * Susan B. Anthony * Mother Jones* Lou Gehrig * Franklin D. Roosevelt * Albert Einstein * Pearl S.Buck * Langston Hughes * John F. Kennedy * Martin Luther KingJr.

These are the voices that shaped our history. They are powerful,moving, and, above all else, uniquely American.
 

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Clarence Darrow 1924 In Defense of Leopold and Loeb
149
Alfred E Smith 1928 Anything UnAmerican Cannot Live in the Sunlight
153
Franklin D Roosevelt 1933 The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself
155
Lou Gehrig 1939 The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth
158
Harold Ickes 1941 What Constitutes an American?
160
Franklin D Roosevelt 1941 A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
162
Learned Hand 1944 The Spirit of Liberty
165
Dwight D Eisenhower 1944 The Eyes of the World Are upon You
167

Samuel Adams 1776 To the Continental Congress
22
Benjamin Franklin 1787 To the Constitutional Convention
25
Jonathan Smith 1788 To the Massachusetts Convention
28
George Washington 1796 Observe Good Faith and Justice towards All Nations
31
Thomas Jefferson 1801 First Inaugural Address
34
Red Jacket Seneca Chief 1805 We Never Quarrel about Religion
36
Tecumseh Shawnee Chief 1811 Sleep Not Longer O Choctaws and Chickasaws
39
Pushmataha Choctaw Chief 1824 Welcome to Lafayette
42
Daniel Webster 1825 Bunker Hill Oration
43
Black Hawk Sauk Chief 1832 Farewell to Black Hawk
46
Sam Houston 1836 Remember the Alamo
49
Elijah Lovejoy 1837 In Defense of a Free Press
51
Angelina Grimke 1838 What Has the North to Do with Slavery?
53
Henry Highland Garnet 1843 The Call to Rebellion
56
Lewis Richardson 1846 My Grave Shall Be Made in Free Soil
58
Thomas Corwin 1847 Against War with Mexico
61
Frederick Douglass 1847 If I Had a Country I Should Be a Patriot
64
Henry Clay 1850 A Call for a Measure of Compromise
67
Sojourner Truth 1851 If You Have Womans Rights Give Them to Her
69
Frederick Douglass 1852 What to the American Slave Is Your Fourth of July?
71
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1854 On the Fugitive Slave Law
73
Seattle Duwamish Chief 1854 We Will Dwell Apart and in Peace
76
Lucy Stone 1855 A Disappointed Woman
79
Abraham Lincoln 1858 A House Divided
81
Stephen Douglas 1858 Sixth LincolnDouglas Debate
83
John Brown 1859 To the Court after Sentencing
85
William Lloyd Garrison 1859 On the Death of John Brown
87
Jefferson Davis 1861 Farewell to the Senate
89
Abraham Lincoln 1863 The Gettysburg Address
91
Abraham Lincoln 1865 With Malice toward None with Charity for All
93
Henry M Turner 1868 I Hold That I Am a Member of This Body
95
George Graham Vest 1870 Eulogy on the Dog
97
Cochise Chiricahua Apache Chief 1872 We Will Remain at Peace with Your People Forever
99
Susan B Anthony 1873 Are Women Persons?
101
Chief Joseph Nez Perce 1877 I Will Fight No More Forever
104
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1892 The Solitude of Self
106
William Jennings Bryan 1896 A Cross of Gold
109
Russell Conwell late 1890s Acres of Diamonds
112
Harry Gladstone 1898 To the Machine Tenders Union
116
Mother Jones 1901 To the United Mine Workers of America
117
Florence Kelley 1905 Freeing the Children from Toil
120
Mark Twain 1906 In Behalf of Simplified Spelling
122
Theodore Roosevelt 1910 Citizenship in a Republic
125
Rose Schneiderman 1911 On the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
127
John Jay Chapman 1912 The Coatesville Address
129
Stephen S Wise 1914 Tribute to Lincoln
133
Woodrow Wilson 1915 An Oath of Allegiance to a Great Ideal
135
Anna Howard Shaw 1915 The Fundamental Principle of a Republic
137
Woodrow Wilson 1917 The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy
140
Emma Goldman 1917 First Make Democracy Safe in America
143
Eugene V Debs 1918 While There Is a Lower Class I Am in It
146
Franklin D Roosevelt 1944 The Fala Address
169
Douglas MacArthur 1944 People of the Philippines I Have Returned
171
Roland Gittelsohn 1945 Eulogy at the Marine Corps Cemetery
173
Albert Einstein 1947 To the United Nations
176
Margaret Chase Smith 1950 The Four Horsemen of Calumny
179
William Faulkner 1950 I Decline to Accept the End of Man
182
Pearl Buck 1951 Forbidden to Speak at Cardozo High School Graduation
184
Charlotta Bass 1952 Let My People Go
187
Richard Nixon 1952 The Checkers Speech
190
Martin Luther King Jr 1955 There Comes a Time When People Get Tired
192
Langston Hughes 1957 On the Blacklist All Our Lives
194
Roy Wilkins 1957 The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back
197
John F Kennedy 1961 Ask What You Can Do for Your Country
200
Douglas MacArthur 1962 Duty Honor Country
204
John F Kennedy 1963 Let Them Come to Berlin
206
Martin Luther King Jr 1963 I Have a Dream
208
Charles B Morgan Jr 1963 Four Little Girls Were Killed
211
Earl Warren 1963 Eulogy for President John F Kennedy
214
Malcolm X 1964 The Ballot or the Bullet
216
Barry Goldwater 1964 Extremism in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice
220
Mario Savio 1964 History Has Not Ended
223
Lyndon Baines Johnson 1965 We Shall Overcome
225
Adlai Stevenson 1965 To the United Nations
229
William Sloane Coffin Jr 1967 The Anvil of Individual Conscience
231
Cesar Chavez 1968 God Help Us to Be Men
234
J William Fulbright 1968 The Focus Is Vietnam
236
Martin Luther King Jr 1968 Ive Been to the Mountaintop
239
Robert F Kennedy 1968 On the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
242
Shirley Chisholm 1969 The Business of America Is War
245
Frank James 1970 On the 350th Anniversary of Plymouth
248
Archibald Cox 1971 The Price of Liberty to Speak the Truth
251
Barbara Jordan 1974 My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole
253
Richard Nixon 1974 I Shall Resign the Presidency
256
Silvio Conte 1975 I Must Raise a Beef about This Bill
258
Dr Seuss 1977 Commencement Address at Lake Forest College
260
Esther Cohen 1981 At the Liberators Conference
261
Samantha Smith 1983 Look Around and See Only Friends
263
Ronald Reagan 1986 To the Nation on the Challenger Disaster
266
Thurgood Marshall 1987 On the Bicentennial of the Constitution
268
Ronald Reagan 1987 Mr Gorbachev Tear Down This Wall
271
Jesse Jackson 1988 To the Democratic National Convention
274
Daniel Inouye 1993 To the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team
276
Cal Ripken Jr 1995 To His Fans
279
Charles S Robb 2000 They Died for That Which Can Never Burn
281
Appendix To the Young Speaker
285
Permissions
287
Photo Credits
288
Index of Speakers
289
Index of Themes
291
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SUZANNE MCINTIRE has been collecting great speeches for many years. She is a freelance writer and the mother of two.

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