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Tag Archives: Oratory
1964: I Haven’t Lost the Faith
MLK preaches on July 4, 1965, two years after the March on Washington: About two years ago now, I stood with many of you who stood there in person and all of you who were there in spirit before the … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr., Oratory, USA
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1854: A Train of Terrible Miseries
It may appear to those whom I have the honor to address a singular taste for me, an Indian, to take an interest in the triumphal days of a people who occupy, by conquest or have usurped, the possessions of … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Amos C. Hamlin Jr., Art, Civil Rights, John Wannuaucon Quinney, Mohican Nation, Native Americans, Oratory, Painting, Portraits, USA
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1852: What, to the Slave
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Frederick Douglass, Labor, Oratory, Photography, Portraits, Samuel J. Miller, Slavery, USA
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