Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing
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    [synopsis] => 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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