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. A Chicago
Public Library Best Book!*
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**"A wide-ranging collection of speeches and a worthwhile resource for
students of American history." --Booklist
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"A golden celebration of the multicultural voices who demand the
U.S.--and the world--do better." --Kirkus
"An important addition to American history collections." --School
Library Journal
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.
