Great Speeches By American Women
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Author | : James Daley |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2007-12-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0486461416 |
Here are 21 legendary speeches from the country's most inspirational female voices, including Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and many others.
Author | : Anna Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0711255857 |
Over 50 empowering speeches celebrating women in their own words through extracts and commissioned illustrations, spanning throughout history up to the modern day.
Author | : Suzanne McIntire |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2002-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780471217107 |
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.
Author | : Sojourner Truth |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2020-09-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0241472377 |
'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now' A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of Black women throughout her life. This selection of her impassioned speeches is accompanied by the words of other inspiring African-American female campaigners from the nineteenth century. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
Author | : James Daley |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2012-03-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0486115496 |
Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Barack Obama, and many other influential figures.
Author | : Lucretia Mott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Women's rights |
ISBN | : |
This lecture by Mott, delivered 17 December 1849, was in response to one by an unidentified lecturer criticizing the demand for equal rights for women. She makes a very gentle appeal, here, for women's enfranchisement, placing emphasis, instead on the injustices done to women in marriage.
Author | : Yvette Cooper |
Publisher | : Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2019-11-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1786499959 |
A powerful celebration of brilliant speeches by women throughout the ages, from Boudica to Greta Thunberg. ' A treasure trove of trailblazers...' Cathy Newman Looking at lists of the greatest speeches of all time, you might think that powerful oratory is the preserve of men. But the truth is very different - countless brave and bold women have used their voices to inspire change, transform lives and radically alter history. In this timely and personal selection of exceptional speeches, Yvette Cooper MP tells the rousing story of female oratory. From Boudica to Greta Thunberg and Margaret Thatcher to Malala, Yvette introduces each speech and demonstrates how powerful and persuasive oratory can be decidedly female. Written by one of our leading public voices, this is an inspirational call for women to be heard across the globe.
Author | : Emmeline Pankhurst |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Freedom or Death is a speech by Emmeline Pankhurst delivered at Hartford, Connecticut - November 13, 1913. It was later transcribed and issued as a pamphlet. The speech was dedicated to the issues of suffrage movement.
Author | : Edward L. Widmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 2006-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A historian and former presidential speechwriter presents an unprecedented two-volume collection of the greatest speeches in American history.
Author | : Alex Barnett |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2006-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1461748917 |
From George Washington to Martin Luther King to George W. Bush--inspiring speeches from American history.