Great Women's Speeches


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Over 50 empowering speeches celebrating women in their own words through extracts and commissioned illustrations, spanning throughout history up to the modern day.




American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for Young People


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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.




Great Speeches by American Women


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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.







Great American Speeches


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Contains excerpts from twenty historical speeches with background information and student learning activities.







Famous Speeches by Great Women


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We celebrate the speeches spoken by great women who have inspired us over the years - and changed our world for the betterFamous Speeches by great Women includes extracts, passages or lines from speech transcripts by women politicians, sports women, royalty and other influential women from different walks of life. The Famous Speeches by Women include interesting motivational speeches, persuasive and inspirational speeches.Tags: great women artistsgreat women artists phaidongreat women who changed the worldgreat women in historygreat women artists bookthe women of great heron lakegreat women calendarblack widowgreat gatsby dresses for womengreat dames what i learned from older women7 great women by eric metaxasgreat quotes from great womenfantastically great women who changed the worldfantastically great women who changed the world by kate pankhurstgreat women giftsheroines great women through the agesthe women's hour the great fight to win the votegreat women in christian historygreat women journalgreat women kids booklittle women great illustrated classicsgreat novels for womengreat women quotesgreat women raise great womengreat women s giftsswoon great seducers and why women love themgreat women writerscolor your own great paintings by women artistsgreat men and famous women 1894holding the line women in the great arizona mine strike of 1983speeches that changed the worldspeeches of notespeeches of note by shaun usherspeeches that made historygreat speeches by native americanssister outsider essays and speeches by audre lordeabraham lincoln speechesspeeches bookcicero speechesjohn c. calhoun selected writings and speechesi have a dream writings and speeches that changed the worldon religion speeches to its cultured despisersfrederick douglass speechesthe source of self-regard selected essays, speeches, and meditationslend me your ears great speeches in historyjohn f kennedy speechesgreatest speechesselected writings and speeches of marcus garveyhitler speechesspeeches in actsjfk speechesmartin luther king jr speechesmartin luther king speechesrobert kennedy speecheskwame nkrumah speecheslincoln speecheslincoln speeches and writingsnelson mandela speechesthe penguin book of modern speechescicero selected political speechesfranklin roosevelt speechesstrong voices fifteen american speeches worth knowingmalcolm x speeches100 speeches that changed the worldthe worlds 100 greatest speeches100 best speechesgreat speeches of the 20th centurygreatest speeches of the 20th century




Ain't I A Woman?


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'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.




Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women


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This monumental collection of speeches charts the story of America as it unfolded through the decades, showing that at every critical juncture, women were speaking. It's a long-needed corrective to the story we have always told ourselves about whose ideas and voices shaped the nation--a search for long-buried truths, a celebration, and an inspiration.




Lend Me Your Ears


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William Safire's invaluable and immensely entertaining Lend Me Your Ears established itself instantly as a classic treasury of the greatest speeches in human history. Selected with the instincts of a great speechwriter and language maven, arranged by theme and occasion, each deftly introduced and placed in context, the more than two hundred speeches in this compilation demonstrate the enduring power of human eloquence to inspire, to uplift, and to motivate. For this expanded edition Safire has selected more than twenty new speeches by such figures as President Bill Clinton, Senator Robert Dole, General Colin Powell, Microsoft's Bill Gates, the Dalai Lama, Edward R. Murrow, Alistair Cooke, the Buddha, and the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. They prove that even in a digital age the most forceful medium of communication is still the human voice speaking directly to the mind, heart, and soul.