Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights SpeechesJosh Gottheimer Ripples 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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Contents
A Free Negro Blood and Slavery | 3 |
Peter Williams Jr This Is Our Country | 14 |
Sara T Smith Loosening the Bonds of Prejudice | 22 |
John Quincy Adams Defending the Amistad Slaves | 28 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Address at Seneca Falls | 36 |
Sojourner Truth Arnt I a Woman? | 43 |
Frederick Douglass What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? | 45 |
William Lloyd Garrison No Compromise with | 55 |
Martin Luther King Jr I Have a Dream | 233 |
Howard Judge Smith Sex Discrimination in the Civil Rights | 241 |
Martin Luther King Jr A Long Long Way to Go | 258 |
Brotherhood Among Ourselves | 266 |
Lyndon B Johnson To Fulfill These Rights | 275 |
Robert F Kennedy Day of Affirmation Address | 282 |
Franklin Kameny Furthering the Homophile Movement | 291 |
Montoya The Silent People No Longer | 304 |
Pablo De La Guerra On Seizing Land from Native Californians | 62 |
John Brown No Consciousness of Guilt | 70 |
Booker T Washington In Praise of Labor | 77 |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper We Are All Bound Up Together | 83 |
Susan B Anthony Suffrage and the Working Woman | 98 |
T Chamberlain Unsung Heroes | 109 |
Alexander Crummell The Queens of Womanhood | 115 |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Womens Political Future | 125 |
Booker T Washington The Atlanta Compromise | 132 |
Mary Church Terrell The Progress of Colored Women | 142 |
Woodrow Wilson A Moral Partnership Legitimized | 151 |
Margaret Sanger Crusade for Womens Birth Control | 157 |
Marcus Garvey A Separate Nation | 163 |
Marcus Garvey A Last Word Before Incarceration | 170 |
James Omura Fighting Words | 178 |
Carey McWilliams A Cloud of Suspicion | 189 |
Hubert Humphrey No Compromises | 196 |
Ken Burns The Homosexual Faces a Challenge | 216 |
Eisenhower Federal Court Orders Must Be Upheld | 222 |
John F Kennedy Civil Rights Message | 227 |
César Chávez Breaking Bread for Progress | 315 |
Betty Friedan The Real Sexual Revolution | 327 |
José Angel Gutiérrez A Chicano Defined | 345 |
Legalizing Abortion | 352 |
Phyllis Lyon Recognition NOW | 358 |
Harvey Milk Tired of the Silence | 366 |
César Chávez We Organized | 382 |
Larry Kramer Acting Up | 390 |
Virginia Apuzzo Creating Change | 398 |
Anita Hill Anita Hill v Clarence Thomas | 408 |
Lani Guinier Seeking a Conversation on Race | 421 |
Sister Souljah We Are at War | 427 |
Colin Powell Rejecting Racial Hatred | 435 |
Raul Yzaguirre The Two Faces of American Immigration | 440 |
Yuri Kochiyama Consciousness Is Power | 458 |
Kweisi Mfume A Shining and Powerful Dream | 465 |
150 Years Later | 471 |
Afterword | 479 |
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