Black American Political Speeches

Ronald B. (United States of America)
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  1. truckler
    someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect
  2. reconsecrate
    consecrate anew, as after a desecration
  3. disfranchise
    deprive of voting rights
  4. premeditate
    consider, ponder, or plan beforehand
  5. John Brown
    abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
  6. befouled
    made dirty or foul
  7. Nat Turner
    United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)
  8. false pretense
    (law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation
  9. befoul
    spot, stain, or pollute
  10. nastiness
    the quality of being unpleasant
  11. breach of promise
    failure to keep a promise (of marriage)
  12. freeborn
    born free of free parents
  13. undemocratic
    not in agreement with or according to democratic doctrine or practice or ideals
  14. disfranchised
    deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
  15. Fourteenth Amendment
    an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government
  16. verbiage
    overabundance of words
  17. manhood
    the state of being a man; manly qualities
  18. un-American
    considered contrary to the best interests of the United States
  19. illiteracy
    an inability to read
  20. discrimination
    unfair treatment of a person or group based on prejudice
  21. Niagara
    waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls
  22. tittle
    a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
  23. right to vote
    a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment
  24. premeditated
    characterized by deliberate purpose and a degree of planning
  25. writhe
    move in a twisting or contorted motion
  26. unequivocal
    admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding
  27. subterfuge
    something intended to misrepresent the nature of an activity
  28. Douglass
    United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
  29. suffrage
    a legal right to vote
  30. vote
    a choice made by counting people in favor of alternatives
  31. accommodation
    making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
  32. Brown
    Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
  33. laborer
    someone who works with their hands
  34. notoriety
    the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality
  35. writhing
    moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion
  36. pretense
    the act of giving a false appearance
  37. Republican Party
    the younger of two major political parties in the United States; GOP is an acronym for grand old party
  38. blasphemy
    profane language
  39. Sumner
    United States sociologist (1840-1910)
  40. fatherland
    the country where you were born
  41. Garrison
    United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)
  42. chastity
    abstaining from sexual relations
  43. Gould
    United States financier who gained control of the Erie Canal and who caused a financial panic in 1869 when he attempted to corner the gold market (1836-1892)
  44. aspire
    have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
  45. impudent
    improperly forward or bold
  46. want
    the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
  47. wavering
    the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes
  48. creed
    any system of principles or beliefs
  49. violence
    a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction
  50. right
    free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
  51. lawless
    without order or control
  52. promise
    a verbal commitment agreeing to do something in the future
  53. black
    being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness
  54. South
    the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line
  55. freeman
    a person who is not a serf or a slave
  56. privilege
    a special advantage or benefit not enjoyed by all
  57. race
    a contest of speed
  58. Congress
    the legislature of the United States government
  59. redeem
    exchange or buy back for money; under threat
  60. henceforth
    from this time forth; from now on
  61. despised
    treated with contempt
  62. breach
    an opening, especially a gap in a dike or fortification
  63. sacrifice
    the act of killing in order to appease a deity
  64. representative
    serving to typify
  65. self
    your consciousness of your own identity
  66. national
    of or relating to or belonging to a country
  67. dark
    devoid of or deficient in light or brightness
  68. daughter
    a female human offspring
Created on Fri Mar 05 16:19:16 EST 2010 (updated Sat May 01 12:25:39 EDT 2010)

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