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Inaugural Address, 1961

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John F. Kennedy; Key message: 'Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.'

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The Perils of Indifference, 1999

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Elie Wiesel; Key message: 'Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred.'

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The Ballot or the Bullet, 1964

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Malcolm X; Key message: 'It's liberty or death. It's freedom for everybody, or freedom for nobody.'

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Liberty or Death, 1792

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Maximilien Robespierre; Key message: Advocated for the end of the monarchy and the establishment of a French Republic.

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Their Finest Hour, 1940

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Winston Churchill; Key message: 'Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.''

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I Have a Dream, 1963

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Martin Luther King Jr.; Key message: 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.'

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The Gettysburg Address, 1863

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Abraham Lincoln; Key quote: '...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.'

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Ain't I a Woman?, 1851

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Sojourner Truth; Key message: Highlights injustices faced by African American women and argues for gender and racial equality.

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Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat, 1940

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Winston Churchill; Key message: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'

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The Iron Curtain Speech, 1946

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Winston Churchill; Key message: 'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.'

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Give me Liberty, or give me Death!, 1775

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Patrick Henry; Key message: 'I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!'

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The Atlantic Charter, 1941

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Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill; Key message: Set out a vision for a post-war world, one of peace, security, and freedom.

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The Four Freedoms, 1941

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Franklin D. Roosevelt; Key message: Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

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The New Frontier, 1960

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John F. Kennedy; Key message: 'The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges.'

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Tryst with Destiny, 1947

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Jawaharlal Nehru; Key message: 'At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.'

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The Third Philippic, 342 BCE

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Demosthenes; Key message: Encouraged Athenians to rise against the Macedonian army and the growing power of Philip II of Macedonia.

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