Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing

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 didnt, at significant times in American history.

Read the original wordssometimes abridged and sometimes in their entiretythat 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 DeathGeorge Washington, Farewell AddressRed Jacket, We Never Quarrel about ReligionFrederick Douglass, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?Sojourner Truth, I Am a Womans RightsAbraham Lincoln, Gettysburg AddressTheodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a RepublicFranklin Delano Roosevelt, The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear ItselfLou Gehrig, Farewell to BaseballLangston Hughes, On the Blacklist All Our LivesJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy, We Choose to Go to the MoonMartin Luther King, Jr., I Have a DreamFannie Lou Hamer, I Question AmericaCesar Chavez, Address to the Commonwealth Club of California, 1984Hillary Rodham Clinton, Womens Rights Are Human RightsStrong 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.