The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 2000 M09 5 - 656 páginas 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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... 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 the pursuit of Happiness . - That to secure these ...
... hold them , as we hold the rest of mankind , Ene- mies in War , in Peace Friends.- We , therefore , the Representatives of the united States of Amer- ica , in General Congress , Assembled , appealing to the Supreme , Judge of the world ...
... hold , the evil or the blessing will reach you all . The far and the near , the home counties and the back , the rich and poor , will suffer or rejoice alike . The heart that feels not now , is dead : the blood of his children will ...
... hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice , or Representation . That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thor- oughly established as to admit of no dispute , but such of you as wish to be happy willingly ...
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