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Man Cannot Speak for Her, Vol. 1
by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 216 pgs.

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"The right to cast a ballot from a feminine hand occupied the attention and efforts of hundreds of women for more than a century in the U.S. In these two volumes Campbell (University of Minnesota) provides a basic understanding of two processes: the development of the rhetoric used by the women who argued for equal rights, and the constraints and sanctions applied to those women who affronted the norms of society's expectation that true women were seldom seen and never spoke in public. The first volume lays the foundation for the analysis of rhetorical style and content by its fine introduction and by a succession of chapters organized chronologically, with biographical sketches and excerpts from speeches. It includes a chapter specifically addressed to issues of sex, race, and class faced by African American women. Volume 2 is not a continuation of the first, but contains the texts on which the first volume is based. The biographical and historical sections are gracefully written and well organized, but the greatest value of the set lies in the actual words of the feminist leaders and Campbell's skillfull analyses. Every women's studies program must have this available. Upper-division undergraduates and above." Choice

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Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

Notes

2: The Struggle for the Right to Speak

Notes

3: Responding to Opposition Based on Theology: Proposing a Single Moral Standard

Notes

4: Woman's Rights Conventions: Ideological Crucibles

Conclusion

5: A Movement in Transition: The Debate of 1860

Notes

6: Adapting to Males: Addressing State Legislators

Notes

7: Seeking a Judicial Route to Suffrage: Anthony in Behalf of Herself

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8: Social Feminism: Frances Willard, Feminine Feminist""

Conclusion

Notes

9: The Humanistic Underpinnings of Feminism: The Solitude of Self""

Notes

10: The Heavy Burdens of Afro-American Women: Sex, Race, and Class

Notes

11: The Coming of Woman Suffrage: The Orator, the Organizer, and the Agitator

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12: After Woman Suffrage

Conclusion

Afterword

Notes

References

Index

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Man Cannot Speak for Her, Vol. 2
by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 562 pgs.

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"The right to cast a ballot from a feminine hand occupied the attention and efforts of hundreds of women for more than a century in the U.S. In these two volumes Campbell (University of Minnesota) provides a basic understanding of two processes: the development of the rhetoric used by the women who argued for equal rights, and the constraints and sanctions applied to those women who affronted the norms of society's expectation that true women were seldom seen and never spoke in public. The first volume lays the foundation for the analysis of rhetorical style and content by its fine introduction and by a succession of chapters organized chronologically, with biographical sketches and excerpts from speeches. It includes a chapter specifically addressed to issues of sex, race, and class faced by African American women. Volume 2 is not a continuation of the first, but contains the texts on which the first volume is based. The biographical and historical sections are gracefully written and well organized, but the greatest value of the set lies in the actual words of the feminist leaders and Campbell's skillfull analyses. Every women's studies program must have this available. Upper-division undergraduates and above." Choice

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Introduction

1 Maria W. Miller Stewart, Lecture Delivered at The Franklin Hall, 1832

2 Address, Convention Of Anti-Slavery Women, 1838

3 Angelina Grimké [weld], Address At Pennsylvania Hall, 1838

4 Declaration of Sentiments And Resolutions, 1848

5 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Speech at The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

6 Lucretia Coffin Mott, "Discourse on Woman," 1849

7 Sojourner Truth, Speech at The Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851

8 Ernestine Potowski Rose, Speech at the National Woman's Rights Convention, Worcester, Ma, 1851

9 Clarina Howard Nichols, "The Responsibilities Of Woman," Second National Woman's Rights Convention, Worcester, Ma, 1851

10 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Address to the Legislature Of New York, 1854

11 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "A Slave's Appeal," Speech To the Judiciary Committee, New York State Legislature, 1860

12 National Woman's Rights Convention Debate, New York City, 1860

13 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "On Divorce," Speech Before The Judiciary Committee Of The New York Senate, 1861

14 Sojourner Truth, Two Speeches At The American Equal Rights Association Convention, 1867

15 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Kansas State Referendum Campaign Speech At Lawrence, Kansas, 1867

16 Susan B. Anthony, "Is It A Crime for a U.S. Citizen To Vote?" 1872-73

17 Frances E. Willard, A White Life for Two, 1890

18 Matilda Joslyn Gage, "The Dangers of the Hour," Women's National Liberal Convention, 1890

19 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Solitude of Self," 1892

20 Ida B. Wells, ",Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases," 1892, With Mary Church Terrell's Introduction., 1893

21 Mary Church Terrell, "What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of The United States," 1906

22 Anna Howard, Shaw, "The Fundamental Principle of A Republic," 1915

23 Carrie Chapman Catt, Presidential Address, 1902

24 Carrie Chapman Catt, "The Crisis," Atlantic City, Nj, 1916

25 Carrie Chapman Catt, "Address to The United States Congress," 1917

26 Crystal Eastman, "Now We Can Begin," 1920

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Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 512 pgs.

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This biographical dictionary, the first of two companion volumes, gives new recognition to early women orators--those who spoke despite efforts to silence them. Following Campbell's introductory chapter, the volume provides extensive entries on 37 key orators. Subjects include suffragists, the first lawyers, ministers, physicians, labor organizers, newspaper editors and publishers, historians, educators, even soldiers. Each entry provides brief biographical information, then focuses on the woman's public life in discourse. Each entry includes an analysis of the subject's rhetoric and information on primary sources, critical works, key rhetorical documents, and selected sources of historical and biographical information. The work is fully indexed.

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Jane Addams (1860-1935), Champion of the Poor, Advocate for Peace, Suffragist

Conclusion

Sources

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), Radical Egalitarian of Woman's Right

Conclusion

Sources

Clara Barton (1821-1912), Advocate for the American Red Cross

Sources

Conclusion

Belva Bennett McNall Lockwood (1830-1917), Lawyer, Equal Rights Advocate, Presidential Candidate

Sources

Clara Bewick Colby (1846-1916), A "Free Lance" Leader and Spokesperson

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Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921), Speaker, Writer, and First Ordained Woman Minister

Sources

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), Woman's Rights Philosopher, Speaker, and Writer

Conclusion

Sources

Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927), A Radical for Woman's Rights

Conclusion

Sources

Laura Clay (1849-1941), A Southern Voice for Woman's Rights

Sources

Mary Clyens Lease (1850-1933), "Raising Hell": for Populism and Woman's Rights

Sources

Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880), Religious Reformer and Advocate of the Oppressed

Conclusion

Sources

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912), Anarchist Feminist

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Conclusion

Sources

Anna E. Dickinson (1842-1932), Stump Speaker, Woman's Rights Advocate, Lyceum Star

Sources

Margaret Dreier Robins (1868-1945), Rhetorical Link between Two Great Social Movements

Conclusion

Sources

Rosa Fassel Sonneschein (1847-1932), Editor and Publisher of the American Jewess

Conclusion

Sources

Emma Goldman (1869-1940), Feminist Anarchist

Conclusion

Sources

Angelina Grimke Weld (1805-1879), Pioneer Advocate for Human Rights

Sources

Sarah M. Grimke (1792-1873), Author of First U.S. Woman's Rights Treatise

Sources

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1830?-1930), "Mother" and Messiah to Industrial Labor

Conclusion

Sources

Emma Hart Willard (1787-1870), Pioneer Educator and Lobbyist

Conclusion

Sources

Clarina Howard Nichols (1810-1885), A Modest Voice for Woman's Rights

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Helen Jackson Gougar (1843-1907), Moral Warrior for Temperance and Woman Suffrage

Sources

Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898), Suffragist and Freethinker

Sources

Florence Kelley (1859-1932), Advocate for Children, Working Women, and Consumers

Sources

Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (1813-1876), Activist, Organizer, Publisher, Lecturer

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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt (1859-1947), Leadership for Woman Suffrage and Peace

Sources

Maria W. Miller Stewart (1803-1879), First African-American Woman to Lecture in Public

Conclusion

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Ernestine Potowski Rose (1810-1892), Unfolding the Rhetoric of Identity

Conclusion

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Kate Richards O'Hare Cunningham (1876-1948), Socialist, Antiwar Activist, Prison Reformer

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Deborah Sampson-Gannett (1760-1827), Revolutionary War Veteran and Early Lecturer

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Abigail Scott Duniway (1834-1915), Praise and Blame for Woman's Rights "Where Rolls the Oregon"

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Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), A Case Study in Rhetorical Enactment

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Sojourner Truth (1797?-1883), Legendary Anti-Slavery and Woman's Rights Agitator

Conclusion

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Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), Patriotic Crusader for Woman's Rights and Peace

Conclusion

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Catherine Waugh McCulloch (1862-1945), Drama, Humor, and Legal Argument in Support of Woman Suffrage, Peace, Temperance, and Social Justice

Sources

Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931), Agitator for African-American Rights

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Frances E. Willard (1839-1898), Reinventor of "True Womanhood"

Sources

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Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-1993: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 491 pgs.

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This volume, the second of two companion biographical dictionaries, provides extensive entries on 31 women orators active since 1925. It covers women with distinguished political careers, such as Clare Boothe Luce, Frances Perkins, and Ann Willis Richards; women with important scientific careers, such as Rachel Carson and Helen Broinowski Caldicott; and women with religious careers, such as Dorothy Day and Pauli Murray. It includes extraordinary women, such as Helen Keller and Eleanor Roosevelt and women who have been active in the women's movement as well as those, such as Phyllis Schlafly, who have been actively anti-feminist. Each entry provides brief biographical information, focuses on an analysis of the subject's rhetoric, and concludes with information on sources.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Introduction

Ti-Grace Atkinson

Emily Greene Balch

Clare Boothe Luce

Rachel Louise Carson

Margaret Chase Smith

Mary Daly

Jessie Daniel Ames

Andrea Dworkin

Geraldine Ann Ferraro

Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980), Member of Congress, Defender of Liberal Democratic Principles, Advocate for Women's Equity

Margaret Higgins Sanger

Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968), Advocate for the Blind, Socialist, and Feminist

Aimee Kennedy Semple Mcpherson

Catharine A. Mackinnon

Robin Evonne Morgan

Pauli Murray

Leonora O'Reilly

Frances Perkins

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Patricia Scott Schroeder

Phyllis Stewart Schlafly

Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer

Alyce Faye Wattleton

Ann Willis Richards

Martha Wright Griffiths

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Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric
by Carol Mattingly. 220 pgs.

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Mattingly examines the rhetoric of the temperance movement, the largest political movement of women in the nineteenth century.

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Plates

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Introduction: Silenced Voices

Part One: From Pedestal to Pen and Podium

2: Patriotic Reformers: "Called by the Spirit of the Lord to Lead the Women of the World"

3: Woman-Tempered Rhetoric: Public Presentation and the WCTU

Part Two: Controversy Surrounding the Cause

4: Dissension and Division: Racial Tension and the WCTU

5: Red-Nosed Angels and the Corseted Crusade: Newspaper Accounts of Nineteenth-Century Temperance Reformers

Part Three: Fictional Accounts of Feminine Concerns

6: "The Feelings of the Romantic and Fashionable": Women's Issues in Temperance Fiction

7: "Wine Drinkers and Heartless Profligates": Water Drops from Popular Novelists

Conclusion: Women of the Century

Notes

Works Cited

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"I Am as a Bell That Cannot Ring": Antebellum Women Oratory, in Women and Language
by Anne Mattina. 6 pgs.

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We Are Coming: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women
by Shirley Wilson Logan. 262 pgs.

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Shirley Wilson Logan analyzes the distinctive rhetorical features in the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century black women, concentrating on the public discourse of club and church women from 1880 until 1900.
Logan develops each chapter in this illustrated study around a feature of public address as best exemplified in the oratory of a particular woman speaker of the era. She analyzes not only speeches but also editorials, essays, and letters.
Logan first focuses on the prophetic oratory of Maria Stewart, the first American-born black woman to speak publicly. Turning to Frances Harper, she considers speeches that argue for common interests between divergent communities. And she demonstrates that central to the antilynching rhetoric of Ida Wells is the concept of "presence, " or the tactic of enhancing certain selected elements of the presentation.
In her discussion of Fannie Barrier Williams and Anna Cooper, Logan shows that when speaking to which club women and black clergymen, both Williams and,Cooper employ what Kenneth Burke called identification. To analyze the rhetoric of Victoria Matthews, she applies Carolyn Miller's modification of Lloyd Bitzer's concept of the rhetorical situation.
Logan also examines the discourse of women associated with the black Baptist women's movement and those participating in college-affiliated conferences.
The book includes an appendix with little-known speeches and essays by Anna Julia Cooper, Selena Sloan Butler, Lucy Wilmot Smith, Mary V. Cook, Adella Hunt Logan, Victoria Earle Matthews, Lucy C. Laney, and Georgia Swift King.

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Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Black Women on the Speaker's Platform, 1832-1900 an Overview

2: African Origins/American Appropriations Maria Stewart and Ethiopia Rising""

3: We Are All Bound Up Together""

4: Out of Their Own Mouths" Ida Wells and the Presence of Lynching"

5: Women of a Common Country, with Common Interests""

6: To Embalm Her Memory in Song and Story""

7: Can Woman Do This Work?""

Appendix 1 Need of Day Nurseries

Appendix 2 Woman's Place in the Work of the Denomination

Notes

Appendix 3 Colored Women as Wage-Earners

Notes

Appendix 4 Mothers' Meetings

Appendix 5 Address Before the Women's Meeting

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Appendix 6 Prenatal and Hereditary Influences

Appendix 7 Some of the Dangers Confronting Southern Girls in the North

Appendix 8 the Future Colored Girl

Notes

Notes

Works Cited

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With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women
by Shirley Logan Wilson. 172 pgs.

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INTRODUCTION:: MOUNTING THE PLATFORM

1: Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879)

2: Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)

3: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)

4: Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964)

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6: Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944)

7: Victoria Earle Matthews (1861-1907)

References Index

REFERENCES

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Navigating Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Women Governors
by Brenda DeVore Marshall, Molly A. Mayhead. 154 pgs.

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Marshall, Mayhead, and their contributors explore the discourse women governors use to negotiate political boundaires. The analysis, based on the study of five governors, suggests that women bring issues of caring, empowerment, family, and inclusivity to their office, thus resculpting the face of the governorship, restructuring the political landscape, and redefining women's roles.

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Recent Titles in the Praeger Series in Political Communication

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Series Foreword

NOTES

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One The Changing Face of the Governorship

Chapter Two Marginalizing Metaphors of the Feminine

Chapter Three Portrait of a "Governor Lady": An Examination of Nellie Tayloe Ross's Autobiographical Political Advocacy

Conclusion

Chapter Four "For Kentucky": The Shared Vision of Governor Martha Layne Collins

Chapter Five The Fusion of Populist and Feminine Styles in the Rhetoric of Ann Richards

Conclusion

Chapter Six Re-Visioning and Re-Framing Political Boundaries: Barbara Roberts' Response to Oregon's Budget Crisis

Chapter Seven Christine Todd Whitman and the Ideology of the New Jersey Governorship

Conclusions

Conclusion

Works Consulted

Index

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Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866-1910
by Nan Johnson. 220 pgs.

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Johnson demonstrates that after the Civil War, non-academic or "parlor" traditions of rhetorical performance helped to sustain the icon of the white middle-class woman as queen of her domestic sphere by promoting a code of rhetorical behavior for women that required the performance of conventional femininity.

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Figures

Acknowledgments

Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866–1910

Introduction: The Feminist Analysis of Rhetoric as a Cultural Site

1: Parlor Rhetoric and the Performance of Gender

2: Reigning in the Court of Silence: Women and Rhetorical Space

3: Dear Millie: Letter Writing and Gender in Postbellum America

4: Noble Maids Have Come to Town

5: Noble Maids and Eloquent Mothers, off the Map

Notes Bibliography Index

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Addressing Issues of Context in Historical Women's Public Address, in Women's Studies in Communication
by E. Michele Ramsey. 24 pgs.

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Sojourner Truth as Orator: Wit, Story, and Song
by Suzanne Pullon Fitch, Roseann M. Mandziuk. 239 pgs.

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This work is an in-depth analysis of the full breadth of Sojourner Truth's public discourse that places it in its proper historical context and explores the use of humor and narratives as primary rhetorical strategies used by this illiterate ex-slave to create a powerful public persona. The book provides a comprehensive survey of the life of Sojourner Truth, and includes a unique and authoritative compilation of primary rhetorical documents, such as speeches, songs, and public letters.

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Series Foreword

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part I: Critical Analysis

1: Introduction

2: From Slave to Freewoman

3: If We Can Laugh and Sing

4: Storyteller and Songstress

5: Conclusion: Folk Legend

Part II: Collected Speeches, Reports, Public Letters, and Songs

Speeches

Reports

Public Letters

Songs

Chronology of Major Speeches

Bibliography

Index

About the Authors

Great American Orators
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From One Voice A Chorus: Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 1860 Address to the New York State Legislature, in Women's Studies in Communication
by Diane Helene Miller. 37 pgs.

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Pre-Inception Rhetoric in the Creation of a Social Movement: The Case of Frances Wright, in Communication Studies
by Cary R. W. Voss, Robert C. Rowland. 14 pgs.

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Barbara C. Jordan--Selected Speeches
by Sandra Parham, Barbara C. Jordan. 114 pgs.

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Introduction

Preface

Barbara Charline Jordan 1936-1996

The Barbara Jordan Archives

The Constitution

Nothing New Under the Sun

Moving on from Watergate

Reflections on the Constitution

It's More Than a Lifeless Archives

National Archives Address

Women and the Constitution: the Challenge

Government and Democracy

The Law, the Promise, and the Power

In Search of Humanity

Civil Liberties: Inoperative? Inaudible? Unintelligible? Expletive Deleted?

Can We Govern Ourselves?

Harvard University Commencement Address

Council on Foundations Keynote Address

Civil Rights and Diversity

E Pluribus Unum: Myth or Reality? One from Many

How Do We Live with Each Other's Deepest Differences?

Does the Idea of Civil Rights Remain a Good Idea as We Approach the Year 2000 A.D.?

Ethics

The Rebirth of Ethics -- a Pervasive Challenge

Ethical Dilemmas of Leadership

Famous Speeches

Democratic National Convention Address

Change: from What to What?

Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee (watergate)

Statement Given to Time Magazine on Retirement from Congress

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