Description
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.