Ripples of hope : great American civil rights speeches

Ripples of Hope brings together the most influential and important civil rights speeches from the entire range of American history-from the colonial period to the present. Gathered from the great speeches of the civil rights movement of African Americans, Asian Americans, gays, Hispanic Americans, and women, Ripples of Hope includes voices as diverse as Sister Souljah, Spark Matsui, and Harvey Milk, which, taken as a whole, constitute a unique chronicle of the modern civil rights movement.Featuring a foreword by President Bill Clinton and an afterword by Mary Frances Berry, this collection represents not just a historical first but also an indispensable resource for readers searching for an alternative history of American rhetoric. Edited and with an introduction by former Clinton speechwriter Josh Gottheimer, the stirring speeches that make up this volume provide an important perspective on our nation's development, and will inform the future debate on civil rights.

• Foreword p. xv William Jefferson Clinton
• Introduction p. xvii Josh Gottheimer
• Acknowledgments p. xxxix
• Early America, Early Dissent 1787-1865
• The Curse of Slavery p. 3 Gouverneur Morris
• Blood and Slavery p. 5 A Free Negro
• This Is Our Country p. 10 Peter Williams, Jr.
• An Address at the African Masonic Hall p. 14 Maria W. Stewart
• Address to the Massachusetts Legislature p. 19 Angelina Grimke
• Loosening the Bonds of Prejudice p. 22 Sara T. Smith
• Defending the Amistad Slaves p. 28 John Quincy Adams
• An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America p. 32 Henry Highland Garnet
• Address at Seneca Falls p. 36 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Ar'n't I a Woman? p. 43 Sojourner Truth
• What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? p. 45 Frederick Douglass
• No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery p. 55 William Lloyd Garrison
• Leave Women, Then, to Find Their Sphere p. 59 Lucy Stone
• On Seizing Land from Native Californians p. 62 Pablo De La Guerra
• A House Divided p. 65 Abraham Lincoln
• No Consciousness of Guilt p. 70 John Brown
• A Day to Celebrate Emancipation p. 72 Jonathan Gibbs
• Second Inaugural Address p. 75 Abraham Lincoln
• In Praise of Labor p. 77 Booker T. Washington
• Measured Gains: Two Steps Forward, One Step Backward 1866-1949
• We Are All Bound Up Together p. 83 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
• The Myth of "Yellow Peril" p. 87 Frederick Douglass
• Suffrage and the Working Woman p. 98 Susan B. Anthony
• Half Free, Half Slave p. 103 James T. Rapier
• Unsung Heroes p. 109 Rev. L.T. Chamberlain
• The First African-American Governor p. 112 P.B.S. Pinchback
• The Queens of Womanhood p. 115 Alexander Crummell
• Man Cannot Speak for Her p. 120 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• A Call for Black Women p. 125 Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
• The Atlanta Compromise p. 128 Booker T. Washington
• Training Negroes for Social Power p. 132 W.E.B. Du Bois
• The Progress of Colored Women p. 138 Mary Church Terrell
• The Last, Hard Fight p. 142 Carrie Chapman Catt
• A Moral Partnership Legitimized p. 147 Woodrow Wilson
• A Defense of Japanese Americans p. 150 John P. Irish
• Crusade for Women's Birth Control p. 153 Margaret Sanger
• Defending Mexican Americans p. 156 Alonso S. Perales
• A Separate Nation p. 159 Marcus Garvey
• A Last Word Before Incarceration p. 166 Marcus Garvey
• A Negro Nation Within a Nation p. 170 W.E.B. Du Bois
• Fighting Words p. 174 James Omura
• Desegregating the Military p. 178 A. Philip Randolph
• A Cloud of Suspicion p. 185 Carey McWilliams
• Guarding Our Heritage p. 188 Harry S. Truman
• Jim Crow Army p. 192 Bayard Rustin
• No Compromises p. 196 Hubert Humphrey
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights p. 201 Eleanor Roosevelt
• The Civil Rights Era: Lift Every Voice 1950-1969
• Dismantling Segregation: Brown v. Board of Education p. 207 Thurgood Marshall
• Montgomery Bus Boycott p. 210 Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The Homosexual Faces a Challenge p. 216 Ken Burns
• Federal Court Orders Must Be Upheld p. 222 Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Civil Rights Message p. 227 John F. Kennedy
• I Have a Dream p. 233 Martin Luther King, Jr.
• We Must Free Ourselves p. 238 John Lewis
• Sex Discrimination in the Civil Rights Act p. 241 Howard "Judge" Smith
• The Ballot or the Bullet p. 245 Malcolm X
• A Long, Long Way to Go p. 258 Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Brotherhood Among Ourselves p. 266 Malcolm X
• We Shall Overcome p. 270 Lyndon B. Johnson
• To Fulfill These Rights p. 275 Lyndon B. Johnson
• Day of Affirmation Address p. 282 Robert F. Kennedy
• Furthering the Homophile Movement p. 291 Franklin Kameny
• Black Power p. 296 Stokely Carmichael
• The Silent People No Longer p. 304 Joseph M. Montoya
• The Land Grant Question p. 306 Reies Lopez Tijerina
• Breaking Bread for Progress p. 315 Cesar Chavez
• I've Been to the Mountaintop p. 317 Martin Luther King, Jr.
• On Martin Luther King's Death p. 318 Robert F. Kennedy
• From Expatriation to Emancipation p. 320 Daniel Inouye
• The Real Sexual Revolution p. 327 Betty Friedan
• This Is No Land of Cynics p. 331 Henry B. Gonzalez
• Chicano Nationalism: Fighting for La Raza p. 335 Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales
• For the Equal Rights Ammendment p. 340 Shirly Chisolm
• Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good? p. 345 Barbara Jordan
• Take Destiny into Your Own Hands p. 350 Karla Jay
• The Current Struggle: Slow But Steady Progress 1970-1998
• A Chicano Defined p. 355 Jose Angel Gutierrez
• Roe v. Wade: Legalizing Abortion p. 362 Sarah Weddington
• You Can Do It p. 365 Patricia Schroeder
• Recognition NOW p. 368 Phyllis Lyon
• America Should Admit Its Guilt p. 372 Robert "Spark" Matsunaga
• Tired of the Silence p. 376 Harvey Milk
• That a Past Wrong Be Admitted p. 381 Clifford Uyeda
• Our Time Has Come: 1984 Democratic Convention Speech p. 384 Jesse Jackson, Sr.
• We Organized p. 392 Cesar Chavez
• Acting Up p. 400 Larry Kramer
• Creating Change p. 408 Virginia Apuzzo
• What Gay Consciousness Brings p. 413 Harry Hay
• Anita Hill v. Clarence Thomas p. 418 Anita Hill
• The Story of Self-Hatred p. 423 David Mixner
• Seeking a Conversation on Race p. 427 Lani Guinier
• The Freedom to Die p. 431 William J. Clinton
• We Are at War p. 437 Sister Souljah
• Rejecting Racial Hatred p. 445 Colin Powell
• The Two Faces of American Immigration p. 450 Raul Yzaguirre
• A Million Men Marching On p. 453 Louis Farrakhan
• Consciousness Is Power p. 468 Yuri Kochiyama
• Protecting Same-Sex Marriage p. 473 Barney Frank
• A Shining and Powerful Dream p. 475 Kweisi Mfume
• Seneca Falls: 150 Years Later p. 481 Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Afterword p. 489 Mary Frances Berry
• Credits p. 491
• Index p. 495