The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationThe 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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... Equals Courtesy , to Inferiors Nobleness . If you know how to spend less than you get , you have the Philosophers - Stone . Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days . He that has neither fools , whores nor beggars among his kindred , is the son ...
... equal benefet from the laws of the Land which doth not justifi but condemns Slavery or if there had bin aney Law to hold us in Bondage we are Humbely of the Opinion ther never was aney to inslave our children for life when Born in a ...
... equal , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights , that among these are Life , Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness . Thomas Jefferson ( 1743-1826 ) wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence ...
... equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them , a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation . - We hold these truths to be self ...
... equal to our own , and that therefore to declare this act to be irrevocable would be of no effect in law ; yet we are free to declare , and do declare , that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind , and that if ...