Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing is a collection of significant speeches, made both by those who held the reins of power and those who didn't, at significant times in American history. Read the original words-sometimes abridged and sometimes in their entirety-that have shaped our cultural fabric.Introductions by acclaimed writer Tonya Bolden provide historical context and critical insights to the meaning and impact of every speech. Illustrations by award-winning artist Eric Velasquez illuminate what it was really like at each moment in history. This collection includes the following:, *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"Strong Voices includes a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author and celebrated journalist Cokie Roberts, as well as a timeline in the back of the book, along with letters to the reader from Tonya Bolden and Eric Velasquez. Strong Voices is a tremendous introduction to the extraordinary words spoken in history.
