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Strong Voices

Year

2020

Language

ENGLISH

Publication Information

HarperCollins

Summary

Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing is a collection of significant speeches, made both by those who held the reins of power and those who didn't, at significant times in American history. Read the original words-sometimes abridged and sometimes in their entirety-that have shaped our cultural fabric. Introductions by acclaimed writer Tonya Bolden provide historical context and critical insights to the meaning and impact of every speech. Illustrations by award-winning artist Eric Velasquez illuminate what it was really like at each moment in history. This collection includes the following: • Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" • George Washington, Farewell Address • Red Jacket, "We Never Quarrel about Religion" • Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" • Sojourner Truth, "I Am a Woman's Rights" • Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address • Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic" • Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself" • Lou Gehrig, "Farewell to Baseball" • Langston Hughes, "On the Blacklist All Our Lives" • John Fitzgerald Kennedy, "We Choose to Go to the Moon" • Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" • Fannie Lou Hamer, "I Question America" • Cesar Chavez, Address to the Commonwealth Club of California, 1984 • Hillary Rodham Clinton, "Women's Rights Are Human Rights" Strong Voices includes a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author and celebrated journalist Cokie Roberts, as well as a timeline in the back of the book, along with letters to the reader from Tonya Bolden and Eric Velasquez. Strong Voices is a tremendous introduction to the extraordinary words spoken in history.

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