Strong voices: fifteen American speeches worth knowing

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"

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