Give Me Liberty
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2014
432 pages
978-1-60598-712-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Give me liberty," demanded Patrick Henry, "or give me death!" Henry's words continue to echo in American history and that quote, and the speech it comes from, remains one of the two or three known to almost every American. The other speeches that have become part of our American collective consciousness all have one theme in common: liberty. These feats of oration seem to trace the evolution of America's definition of liberty, and to whom it applies. But what exactly is liberty?Give Me Liberty looks at these great speeches and provides the historical context, focusing attention on particular individuals who summed up the issues of their own day in words that have never been forgotten. Webber gleans lessons from the past centuries that will allow us to continue to strive for the ideals of liberty in the twenty-first century.
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Christopher Webber is the author of more than two dozen books, including Reinventing Marriage and Beyond Beowulf. A graduate of Princeton University and a priest of the Episcopal Church, Webber has served parishes in New York and Connecticut and has also written several hymns. His interest in James W. C. Pennington developed while compiling A Yearbook of American Saints. Webber lives with his wife on an old farm in northwestern Connecticut.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Foreword: Defining Freedom
- Chapter ONE
- Patrick Henry 1736-1799
- Give me liberty or give me death
- Chapter TWO
- Daniel Webster 1782-1852
- Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable
- Chapter THREE The Abolitionists
- James W. C. Pennington c. 1807-1870
- God of Liberty, save us from this clause
- Wendell Phillips 1811-1884
- I am a fanatic
- Frederick Douglass 1818-1895
- Freedom . is the right to choose
- Chapter FOUR The Suffragists
- Angelina Grimké 1805-1879
- Deliver me from the oppression of men
- Abby Kelley Foster 1811-1887
- Bloody feet, sisters, have worn smooth the path by which you have come hither
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902
- No just government can be formed without the consent of the governed
- Chapter FIVE
- Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
- A new nation, conceived in liberty
- Chapter SIX
- William Jennings Bryan 1860-1925
- You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold
- Chapter SEVEN
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882-1945
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
- Chapter EIGHT
- Adlai E. Stevenson 1900-1965
- A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular
- Chapter NINE
- Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
- Man is not free unless government is limited
- Chapter TEN
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
- I have a dream
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Endnotes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
