orator

A charismatic orator, the then-43-year-old found herself helming a burgeoning democracy movement, but was put under house arrest in 1989.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Handsome and dynamic, an orator with a flair for memorable rhyme, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was the first Black candidate for president to attract a major following.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026

A gifted orator, Jackson articulated the frustrations of those who felt like second-class citizens in the world's most prosperous democracy.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

We know Augustine in a way that we do no other ancient individual except perhaps Cicero, the Roman orator of the late Republic whose writings were required texts for centuries of schoolboys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

So here’s Cicero the practical man—making himself into the orator he needs to be.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

This period saw a brilliant revitalization by Roman writers and orators of older Greek rhetorical techniques; it was “tinged with a romanticism common to movements oriented toward the distant past.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

I often return to the wisdom of Frederick Douglass, a formerly enslaved person and one of this country’s greatest thinkers and orators.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025

Luckily, he’s a once-in-a-generation political talent himself and one of the greatest orators in modern life.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2024

One book described how orators in ancient Rome would use “loci,” or reference points, to remember long passages.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2023

Pamphlets of verse by negro poets, autobiographies of colored orators.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead