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| Genre/Form: | Speeches, addresses, etc |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Owen Collins |
| OCLC Number: | 1151345190 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 440 pages) |
| Contents: | Pt. 1 The ancients : The Ten Commandments (second millennium BC) / Moses -- The danger in teaching ... (479 BC) / Confucius -- They were worthy of Athens (431 BC) / Pericles -- Socrates' Apology (399 BC) / Socrates -- The Beatitudes (AD 34) / Jesus Christ -- The Sermon on the Mount (AD 34) / Jesus Christ -- I made my journey ... unto Damascus' (AD 50s) / Paul -- Dig this foundation of lowliness deep in thee (AD 408) / Augustine. Pt. 2 The Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries : I had a voice from God to help me (1431) / Joan of Arc -- I neither can nor will recant anything (1521) / Martin Luther -- I dye in the true catholyke fayth (1553) / John Dudley -- The sermon at Martin Luther's funeral (1546) / Johann Bugenhagen Pomeranus -- Cranmer's last words (1556) / Thomas Cranmer -- I have the heart of a king (1588) / Elizabeth I -- We shall be as a city upon a hill (1630) / John Winthrop -- On liberty (1645) / John Winthrop. Pt. 3 The Eighteenth Century : The quiet enjoyment of your religion and liberties (1701) / King William III -- Sinners in the hands of an angry God (1741) / Jonathan Edwards -- Ye must be born again (1747) / John Wesley -- The Stamp Act (1766) / William Pitt -- For who has despised the day of small things? (1770) / George Whitefield -- Conciliation with America (1775) / Edmund Burke -- Give me liberty or give me death (1775) / Patrick Henry -- Commerce between master and slave (1782) / Thomas Jefferson -- George Washington prevents the revolt of his officers (1783) -- God is no respecter of persons (1786) / Jupiter Hammon -- First inaugural address (1789) / George Washington -- On the death of Marie Antoinette (1793) / Edmund Burke -- Republican Frenchmen (1794) / Maximilien Robespierre -- Cultivate peace and harmony with all (1796) / George Washington. Pt. 4 The Nineteenth Century : Let us pursue our own federal and Republican principles (1800) / Thomas Jefferson -- I shall need the favor of that being ... (1805) / Thomas Jefferson -- Farewell to the old guard (1814) / Napoleon Bonaparte -- Here am I calling for justice to Ireland (1836) / Daniel O'Connell -- Virtue in rags and patches (1842) / Charles Dickens -- The Declaration of sentiments (1848) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Ain't I a woman? (1851) / Sojourner Truth -- Man no longer believes in the divine right of force and fraud (1851) / E.L. Rose -- What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? (1852) / Frederick Douglass -- Inaugural address (1853) / Franklin Pierce -- Prosperity to the Hospital for Sick Children (1858) / Charles Dickens -- A plea for free speech in Boston (1860) / Frederick Douglass -- First inaugural address (1861) / Abraham Lincoln -- The Gettysburg Address (1863) / Abraham Lincoln -- Second inaugural address (1865) / Abraham Lincoln -- Speech on reconstruction (1865) / Abraham Lincoln -- The sermon at Abraham Lincoln's funeral (1865) / Phineas D. Gurley -- Political action and the working class (1871) / Karl Marx -- And the truth shall make you free (1871) / Victoria C. Woodhall -- On women's right to vote (1873) / Susan B. Anthony -- In memory of Thomas Paine (1877) / Walt Whitman -- Pleasant reminiscences concerning literary folk (1877) / Mark Twain -- Looking Glass is dead (1877) / Chief Joseph -- The new South (1886) / Henry W. Grady -- Appeal to the women of America (1888) / Josephine E. Butler. Pt. 5 The Twentieth Century : If women had the vote (1908) / Emmeline Pankhurst -- Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good (1922) / Mahatma Gandhi -- The annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe! (1939) / Adolph Hitler -- We shall defend our island whatever the cost (1940) / Winston Churchill -- I have a dream (1963) / Martin Luther King -- An ideal for which I am prepared to die (1964) / Nelson Mandela -- We are concerned about the poor all over the world (1968) / Coretta Scott King -- Christianity is giving (1977) / Mother Teresa -- The foreign policy of Great Britain (1979) / Margaret Thatcher -- I address you on behalf of the unborn child (1995) / Mother Teresa -- Give voice to women everywhere whose words go unnoticed (1995) / Hillary R. Clinton. |
| Responsibility: | compiled by Owen Collins ; foreword by Andrew Young. |
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