The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 5. 9. 2000. - 656 страница The American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character. |
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... cause - whether for abolition of slavery , for barring racial segregation , for advancing the rights of women - have reminded the public that " all men are created equal . " Wherever people have fought against undemocratic regimes ...
... causes which impel them to the separation . - We hold these truths to be self - evident , that all men are created equal , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights , that among these are Life , Liberty and ...
... cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative powers , incapable of Annihilation , have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without ...
... cause of hatred and bloodshed for centuries . In 1779 , Jefferson offered the following landmark bill in the Vir- ginia legislature , but it was not adopted until 1786. Its guarantee of religious liberty was a precursor of the First ...
... cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other . Let them call me rebel , and welcome , I feel no concern from it ; but I should suffer the misery of devils , were I to make a whore of my soul by swear ...