The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 2000 M09 5 - 656 pages The American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character. |
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... opinions in matters of religion as are publicly written and printed at this day . They were fallible men , it seems , and we take the liberty , not only to differ from them in religious opinion , but to condemn them and their opinions ...
... Opinion ther never was aney to inslave our children for life when Born in a free Countrey . We therfor Bage your Excellency and Hon- ours will give this its deer weight and consideration and that you will accordingly cause an act of the ...
... opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation . - We hold these truths to be self - evident , that all men are created equal , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain ...
... opinions or beliefs . Thomas Jefferson was passionately committed to the principle of the free mind . Toward that end , he unceasingly promoted freedom of speech , free- dom of the press , and freedom of religion and education . Like ...
... opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible , and as such endeavoring to impose them on others , hath ... opinion , is depriving him injudiciously of those privileges and advantages to which , in common with his fellow ...