Ripples Of Hope: Great American Civil Rights SpeechesRipples of Hope brings together the most influential and important civil rights speeches from the entire range of American history-from the colonial period to the present. Gathered from the great speeches of the civil rights movement of African Americans, Asian Americans, gays, Hispanic Americans, and women, Ripples of Hope includes voices as diverse as Sister Souljah, Spark Matsui, and Harvey Milk, which, taken as a whole, constitute a unique chronicle of the modern civil rights movement. Featuring a foreword by President Bill Clinton and an afterword by Mary Frances Berry, this collection represents not just a historical first but also an indispensable resource for readers searching for an alternative history of American rhetoric. Edited and with an introduction by former Clinton speechwriter Josh Gottheimer, the stirring speeches that make up this volume provide an important perspective on our nation's development, and will inform the future debate on civil rights. |
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... racial gaps in education, criminal justice, health, employment, and wealth. I dedicated much of my work as president to closing those gaps; but of course we have much more work to do if we are ever to eliminate discrimination based on race ...
... racial gaps in education, criminal justice, health, employment, and wealth. I dedicated much of my work as president to closing those gaps; but of course we have much more work to do if we are ever to eliminate discrimination based on race ...
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... race riots and segregation, he declared,“ We shall overcome.” In San Francisco, gay activist Harry Hay recalled the social activists before him when he openly claimed at the height of the civil rights era that homosexuals were indeed a ...
... race riots and segregation, he declared,“ We shall overcome.” In San Francisco, gay activist Harry Hay recalled the social activists before him when he openly claimed at the height of the civil rights era that homosexuals were indeed a ...
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... race and the level of trust he evoked from minority communities particularly impressed me. Since his days as governor of Arkansas, in his policies and rhetoric, he had urged Americans from all backgrounds to be more accepting of those ...
... race and the level of trust he evoked from minority communities particularly impressed me. Since his days as governor of Arkansas, in his policies and rhetoric, he had urged Americans from all backgrounds to be more accepting of those ...
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... race of men who are distinguished from the rest of the human species by a black skin and woolly hair—disadvantages of very little moment in themselves, but which prove to us a source of greatest misery, because there are men who will ...
... race of men who are distinguished from the rest of the human species by a black skin and woolly hair—disadvantages of very little moment in themselves, but which prove to us a source of greatest misery, because there are men who will ...
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... race from the edge of the sword. The Queen of Persia, if Queen she might be called, who was but the mistress of her voluptuous lord, trained as she had been in the secret abominations of an oriental harem, had studied too deeply the ...
... race from the edge of the sword. The Queen of Persia, if Queen she might be called, who was but the mistress of her voluptuous lord, trained as she had been in the secret abominations of an oriental harem, had studied too deeply the ...
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