Frederick Douglass
July 5, 1852
Full text available <a href="http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=162">here</a>.
citizen,
sensation,
assembly,
avail,
oration,
privilege,
plantation,
latter,
gratitude,
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A transcript is available <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/us/politics/state-of-the-union-2012-transcript.html">here</a>.
distinguished,
salute,
generation,
decade,
momentum,
institution,
exceed,
consume,
ambition,
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Learn these 88 words from John F. Kennedy's famous speech ("Ask not what your country can do for you").
observe,
celebration,
symbolize,
signify,
solemn,
century,
mortal,
abolish,
poverty,
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In 1863, President Lincoln gave this address in honor of the men who had died during the Battle of Gettysburg.
conceive,
liberty,
proposition,
engage,
civil,
endure,
dedicate,
portion,
hallow,
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Ronald Reagan's speech at the Berlin Wall, June 12, 1987.
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/reagan-tear-down.htm
Berliner,
chemical weapon,
air-raid shelter,
office block,
industrialize,
technological revolution,
ennoblement,
Berlin,
totalitarian state,
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's speech on the rebirth of Lower Manhattan since 9/11.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2011b/pr319-11.html
ground zero,
World Trade Center,
revitalization,
terrorist attack,
come hell or high water,
9/11,
business leader,
water main,
cobblestone,
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August 28, 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
swelter,
manacle,
dramatize,
sear,
engulf,
ghetto,
wallow,
transform,
devotee,
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Words from President Obama's speech on Middle East policy. Prepared text:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/world/middleeast/20prexy-text.html
List created with http://vocabgrabber.com/.
Benghazi,
human right,
Bahraini,
multi-ethnic,
mass murderer,
North Africa,
Rosa Parks,
protester,
brutalize,
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