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1 Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have A Dream Off-Site.mp3  
2

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Inaugural Address

mp3 PDF
3

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

First Inaugural Address

mp3 PDF
4

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation mp3 PDF
5

Barbara Charline Jordan

1976 DNC Keynote Address

mp3 PDF
6 Richard Milhous Nixon

Checkers

mp3 PDF
7 Malcolm X

The Ballot or the Bullet (off site)

mp3.1 mp3.2  
8 Ronald Wilson Reagan

Shuttle 'Challenger' Disaster Address

mp3 PDF
9

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Houston Ministerial Association

mp3 PDF
10 Lyndon Baines Johnson

We Shall Overcome

mp3 PDF
11 Mario Matthew Cuomo

1984 DNC Keynote Address

Off-Site.mp3  
12 Jesse Louis Jackson

1984 DNC Address

mp3  
13

Barbara Charline Jordan

On the Articles of Impeachment

mp3 PDF
14

(Gen) Douglas MacArthur

Farewell Address to Congress

mp3 PDF
15

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I've Been to the Mountaintop

Off-Site.mp3
16

Theodore Roosevelt

The Man with the Muck-rake

  PDF
17

Robert Francis Kennedy

Remarks on the Assassination of MLK

mp3 PDF
18 Dwight David Eisenhower

Farewell Address

mp3 PDF
19

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

War Message

  PDF
20

(Gen) Douglas MacArthur

Duty, Honor, Country

mp3 PDF
21

Richard Milhous Nixon

The Great Silent Majority

mp3 PDF
22

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Ich bin ein Berliner

mp3 PDF
23

Clarence Seward Darrow

Mercy for Leopold and Loeb

  PDF
24

Russell H. Conwell

Acres of Diamonds

mp3-Excerpt PDF
25

Ronald Wilson Reagan

A Time for Choosing

mp3  
26 Huey Pierce Long

Every Man a King

  PDF
27 Anna Howard Shaw Fundamental Principle of a Republic   PDF
28

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Arsenal of Democracy

mp3 PDF
29

Ronald Wilson Reagan

The Evil Empire

mp3 PDF
  30

Ronald Wilson Reagan

First Inaugural Address

mp3 PDF
31

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

First Fireside Chat

mp3 PDF
32 Harry S. Truman

The Truman Doctrine

mp3 PDF
33 William Cuthbert Faulkner

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

mp3  
34

Eugene Victor Debs

1918 Statement to the Court

  PDF
35

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Women's Rights are Human Rights

mp3 PDF
36

Dwight David Eisenhower

Atoms for Peace

mp3 PDF
37

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

American University Commencement

mp3

PDF
38

Dorothy Ann Willis Richards

1988 DNC Keynote Address

mp3 PDF
39

Richard Milhous Nixon

Resignation Speech

mp3

PDF
40

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

The Fourteen Points

  PDF
41

Margaret Chase Smith

Declaration of Conscience

  PDF
42

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Four Freedoms

mp3 PDF
43

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Time to Break Silence

Off-Site.mp3  
44 William Jennings Bryan

Against Imperialism

mp3-Excerpt PDF
45

Barbara Pierce Bush

Wellesley College Commencement

mp3 PDF
46

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Civil Rights Address

mp3

PDF
47

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Cuban Missile Crisis Address

mp3

PDF
48 Spiro Theodore Agnew Television News Coverage mp3 PDF
49 Jesse Louis Jackson 1988 DNC Address mp3.1 mp3.2  
50

Mary Fisher

A Whisper of AIDS

mp3

PDF

51 Lyndon Baines Johnson The Great Society mp3 PDF
52

George Catlett Marshall

The Marshall Plan

mp3

PDF
53

Edward Moore Kennedy

Truth and Tolerance in America

mp3 PDF
54

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Presidential Nomination Acceptance

   
55

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

The Struggle for Human Rights

  PDF
56

Geraldine Anne Ferraro

VP Nomination Acceptance

mp3 PDF
57

Robert Marion La Follette

Free Speech in Wartime

  PDF
58

Ronald Wilson Reagan

40th Anniversary of D-Day Address

mp3

PDF
59

Mario Matthew Cuomo

Religious Belief and Public Morality mp3  
60

Edward Moore Kennedy

Chappaquiddick

mp3

PDF
61

John Llewellyn Lewis

The Rights of Labor

  PDF
62

Barry Morris Goldwater

Presidential Nomination Acceptance

mp3

PDF
63

Stokely Carmichael

Black Power

Off-Site mp3

PDF
64

Hubert Horatio Humphrey

1948 DNC Address

Off-Site mp3 PDF
65

Emma Goldman

Address to the Jury

  PDF
66

Carrie Chapman Catt

The Crisis

  PDF
67

Newton Norman Minow

Television and the Public Interest

mp3 PDF
68

Edward Moore Kennedy

Eulogy for Robert Francis Kennedy

mp3 PDF
69 Anita Faye Hill

To the Senate Judiciary Committee

mp3 PDF
70 Thomas Woodrow Wilson

League of Nations Final Address

  PDF
71

Henry Louis (Lou) Gehrig

Farewell to Baseball Address

   
72

Richard Milhous Nixon

Cambodian Incursion Address

mp3 PDF
73 Carrie Chapman Catt Address to the U.S. Congress   PDF
74 Edward Moore Kennedy 1980 DNC Address mp3 PDF
 

75

Lyndon Baines Johnson

On Not Seeking Re-Election

mp3  
76

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Commonwealth Club Address

  PDF
77

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

First Inaugural Address

  PDF
78

Mario Savio

Sproul Hall Sit-in Speech

mp3  
79

Elizabeth Glaser

1992 DNC Address

mp3 PDF
80

Eugene Victor Debs

The Issue (off site)

   
81 Margaret Higgins Sanger The Children's Era    
82 Ursula Kroeber Le Guin Left-Handed Commencement Address   PDF
83

Crystal Eastman

Now We Can Begin (off site)

   
84

Huey Pierce Long

Share Our Wealth   PDF
85

Gerald Rudolph Ford

Address on Taking the Oath of Office

mp3

PDF
86

Cesar Estrada Chavez

Speech on Ending His 25 Day Fast

   
87

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Statement at the Smith Act Trial

  PDF
88

Jimmy Earl Carter

A Crisis of Confidence

mp3 PDF
89

Malcolm X

Message to the Grassroots (off site)

Off-Site.mp3  
90

William Jefferson Clinton

Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address

mp3 PDF
91 Shirley Anita Chisholm For the Equal Rights Amendment   PDF
92 Ronald Wilson Reagan Brandenburg Gate Address mp3 PDF
93 Eliezer (Elie) Wiesel The Perils of Indifference

mp3

PDF
94

Gerald Rudolph Ford

Pardoning Richard M. Nixon

mp3-Excerpt

PDF
95

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

For the League of Nations

  PDF
96

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Let Us Continue

mp3 PDF
97

Joseph N. Welch

Have You Left No Sense of Decency?

mp3 PDF
98 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt The Declaration of Human Rights mp3 PDF
  99 Robert Francis Kennedy Day of Affirmation mp3 PDF
  100

John Forbes Kerry

Vietnam Veterans Against the War

  PDF
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