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“… Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. …”
Frederick Douglass
from “West India Emancipation,” speech delivered in New York, May, 1857. |
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HISTORY AND INTERFAITH
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ALPHABETICAL
Adams, John
“Thoughts on Government” (1776, April)
Volume I (1787-1788)
Adams, John Quincy
Amistad Case [United States Appellants vs. Cinque]
Argument for the Appellees (1841, February and March)
Adams, Samuel
“The Rights of the Colonists – The Report of the
Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town
Meeting” (1772, November 20)
Angelou, Maya
Speech at First Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton
(1993, January 20)
Anthony, Susan B.
Speeches on Women’s Suffrage (1872 and 1873)
Speech to National-American Woman Suffrage Association
on Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible (1896)
“The Bill of Rights”
“The Bill of Rights” (1789, March 4)
Black Elk
Wounded Knee Massacre from Black Elk Speaks [Ch. 24]
by John G. Neihardt (1890, December 20)
Black Hawk
Surrender Speech by Black Hawk (1832)
Catt, Carrie Chapman
Speech on the Formation of The League of Women Voters
(1918)
Chisolm, Shirley
Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment (1969, May 21)
“Constitution of the Iroquois Nation”
“Constitution of the Iroquois Nation”
(1390-1600 A.C.E.)
“Constitution of the United States of America”
“The Constitution of the United States of America”
(1787, September 17)
“Constitution of the United States of America: Article VI"
“Constitution of the United States of America: Article VI"
(1787, September 17)
“The Dawes Act”
The Dawes Act (1887, February 8)
“The Declaration of Independence”
“The Declaration of Independence” (1776, July 4)
“Declaration of the Rights of Women”
“Declaration of the Rights of Women”
by Olympe de Gouges (1791)
“Declaration of Sentiments”
“Declaration of Sentiments”
by First Women’s Rights Convention Committee
(1848, July)
Douglass, Frederick
Speech: “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”
(1852, July 5)
Speeches: “West India Emancipation” and “Dred Scott Decision” (1857)
“The Dutch Declaration of Independence”
“The Dutch Declaration of Independence” (1581)
The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
(1787-1788)
Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
[African Americans granted suffrage]
(1870, February 3 ratification date)
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
[African Americans granted citizenship]
(1868, July 9 ratification date)
“Fugitive Slave Act”
“Fugitive Slave Act” (1850, September 18)
Franklin, Benjamin
“Letter to Ezra Stiles” (1790, March 9)
Gage, Matilda Joslyn
Woman, Church, and State (1893)
Grant, Ulysses S.
“State of the Union Address” [seventh and last] (1875)
Ingersoll, Robert Green
“The Liberty of All” (1877)
Jefferson, Thomas
“The Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom”
(drafted in 1779, passed in 1786)
(1787, February 27 publication date)
“Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association”
(1802, January 1)
Letter: Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Rush
(1803, April 21)
Letter: Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Miller
(1808, January 23) |
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