• Martin Luther King, Jr.--Letter from Birmingham Jail

• Public Statement by Eight Alabama Clergymen (stimulus for the above argument)

• Martin Luther King, Jr. - "I Have a Dream"

• Thomas Jefferson et. al. - The Declaration of Independence

Leonard Pitts, "Free Speech Doesn't Mean Bigotry Is OK"

Leonard Pitts, "For One Student, a Lesson in the Power of Images"

• Richard Nixon - "The Checkers Speech"

• Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"

• Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

• The History Place Great Speeches Collection (links to a number of important speeches)

Link to Top 100 Speeches

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