Other inclusions, like President Franklin Roosevelt’s, aimed to embolden citizens during difficult socioeconomic times. history, from Patrick Henry’s 1775 “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!” speech to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 1995 “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights,” most of the orations were fervent pleas for social change and equal rights on behalf of marginalized groups, including African-Americans (Frederick Douglass), women (Sojourner Truth), and migrant farm laborers (César Chavez).
“Listen then to the people who created this country, kept it from disunion, and brought more of its citizens into the fullness of their rights,” invites the foreword (by late journalist Cokie Roberts) of this inspirational collection of speeches.
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