The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 2000年9月5日 - 656 頁 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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... human nature - that aspiring , noble principle founded in benevolence , and cherished by knowledge ; I mean the love of power , which has been so often the cause of slavery - has , when- ever freedom has existed , been the cause of ...
... human nature , in the constitution of the intellectual and moral world . There let us see that truth , liberty , justice , and benevolence are its everlasting basis ; and if these could be removed , the super- structure is overthrown of ...
... human nature itself , violat- ing its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him , captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere , or to incur miserable death in ...
... human events , it becomes necessary Whe for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume among the Powers of the earth , the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and ...
... human costs of religious prejudice , which had been the cause of hatred and bloodshed for centuries . In 1779 , Jefferson offered the following landmark bill in the Vir- ginia legislature , but it was not adopted until 1786. Its ...