speeches
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In four major speeches Douglass extolled the Mayflower, joining antislavery figures who looked back to the Plymouth settlers—who established government by consent and initially did not legalize slavery—as an ur-source of abolitionism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The senator has been grabbing national headlines for months by targeting Trump in his speeches, leading to chatter about a possible 2028 presidential run.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
As the author notes in an afterword, “Agrippa left behind no speeches, few letters and only a couple of sentences of direct quotation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"He was amazing. He was so, good. I was crying the whole time. I think I permanently cried for like three hours straight during all the speeches."
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
“First I shall review, say, ten or twelve more speeches of Cicero’s, to put me in the right frame of mind.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
