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Editor's Note | |
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Forewords | |
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President Jimmy Carter | |
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President Gerald R. Ford | |
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Introduction | |
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In the Course of Human Events | |
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"The Argonauts of 1776" | |
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An Exchange of Letters | |
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Introduction to Dramatic Reading of the Declaration of Independence | |
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The Declaration of Independence | |
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"The Gift Outright" | |
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Public Speech | |
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"God Bless America" | |
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"This Land Is Your Land" | |
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Bicentennial Speech | |
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Speech at Independence Hall | |
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"Let America Be America Again" | |
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"The American Dream" | |
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"I Am a Patriot" | |
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Speech on the Dred Scott Decision | |
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The Killer Angels | |
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The Remarkable Andrew | |
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"What July Fourth Means to Me" | |
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"Reasoning the Fourth" | |
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Life | |
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Letter to Aunt Fannie Adoue | |
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Prologue: A Letter to Thoreau | |
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"October Fullness" | |
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"The Cell Door Closes" | |
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Letter to Olga | |
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Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
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The Diary of a Young Girl | |
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"The Four Freedoms" | |
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"The Perils of Indifference" | |
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"Freedom from Fear" | |
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"Oh Freedom" | |
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Inaugural Address | |
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Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech: "To Endure and Prevail" | |
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"Song of Myself" | |
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"The New Colossus" | |
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"Chimes of Freedom" | |
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Women in Exile | |
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Farewell Address | |
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"A Glimpse of Home" | |
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"Teach Your Children" | |
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Liberty | |
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"Ain't I a Woman?" | |
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Democracy in America | |
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Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions | |
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Courtroom Speech on Women's Right to Vote | |
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Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton | |
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Speech before Congress on Women's Suffrage | |
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"Still I Rise" | |
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Letter to His Former Master, Captain Thomas Auld | |
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"Down by the Riverside" | |
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The Emancipation Proclamation | |
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Address to the Niagara Conference | |
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Brown v. Board of Education | |
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My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the 100th Anniversary of the Emancipation | |
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"Shed a Little Light" | |
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"Reflections on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution" | |
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Speech from the Pulpit | |
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | |
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Special Message to the Congress: "The American Promise" | |
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Letter to Theodore Roosevelt | |
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Letter to E.L. Barr Jr. | |
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Letter to Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn | |
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"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" | |
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Letter to Charles McCarthy | |
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"Censors" | |
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"Spirit of Liberty" | |
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"I Am an American" | |
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The Pursuit of Happiness | |
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"Self-Reliance" | |
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"The Road Not Taken" | |
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"Courage" | |
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Letter to His Son | |
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"Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young" | |
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"Poem of Remembrances for a Girl or a Boy of These States" | |
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Letter to Walt Whitman | |
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Commencement Address at James Madison University | |
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"The Myth of Sisyphus" | |
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"I Believe" | |
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"Something for Nothing" | |
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"A Left-Handed Commencement Address at Mills College" | |
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"America the Beautiful" | |
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"I Have a Dream" | |
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Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor | |
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"Pay Attention, Kids" | |
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"America" | |
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"Great Society" | |
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"Talkin' Bout a Revolution" | |
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"What America Means to Me" | |
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The American Cause | |
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"Open Letter to the Poet Archibald MacLeish Who Has Forsaken His Massachusetts Farm to Make Propaganda for Freedom" | |
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"Let That Old-Time Freedom Ring Out" | |
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"Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts" | |
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"The Congressional Library" | |
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Democratic National Convention Keynote Address: "Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good?" | |
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Commencement Address at Northern Arizona University | |
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Speech on Senate Floor: "Declaration of Conscience" | |
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Commencement Address at the College of Santa Fe | |
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"I Will Live and Survive" | |
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"America's Challenge: Revitalizing Our National Community" | |
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Commencement Address at Vassar College | |
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"To the Patriots and the Activist Poets" | |
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Closing Argument in the Henry Sweet Trial | |
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The American President | |
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"I Sing of Change" | |
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"Keepers of Democracy" | |
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"Generations of Lost Angels Found" | |
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"Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Number XVII" | |
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Appendix | |
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The Constitution of the United States of America | |
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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Sources and Permissions | |
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Index | |