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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 | |