| Introduction |
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Boudicca, "This is a woman's resolve," AD61 |
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3 | (1) |
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Elizabeth I, "The heart and stomach of a king," 8 August 1588 |
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4 | (2) |
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John Boyega, "Black lives have always mattered," 3 June 2020 |
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6 | (3) |
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Eleazar Ben Yair, "Let us die before we become slaves," AD 73 |
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9 | (5) |
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Winston Churchill, "Blood, toil, tears and sweat," 13 May 1940 |
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14 | (3) |
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Emmeline Pankhurst, "I am here as a soldier," 13 November 1913 |
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17 | (6) |
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Martin Luther King Jr., "I have a dream," 28 August 1963 |
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23 | (6) |
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Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a woman?," 1863 version |
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29 | (4) |
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Muhammad Ali, "Wait till you see Muhammad Ali," 30 October 1974 |
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33 | (4) |
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Simon Bolivar, "We are not Europeans; we are not Indians; we are but a mixed species," 15 February 1819 |
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37 | (2) |
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Toussaint Louverture, "I want liberty and equality to reign," 29 August 1793 |
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39 | (1) |
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Jawaharlal Nehru, "At the stroke of the midnight hour," 14 August 1947 |
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40 | (2) |
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Nelson Mandela, "Rainbow nation," 10 May 1994 |
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42 | (3) |
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Winston Churchill, "We shall fight on the beaches," 4 June 1940 |
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45 | (4) |
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Muawiyah, "When they pull, I loosen," AD 7th century |
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49 | (1) |
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Elizabeth I, "I have reigned with your loves," 30 November 1601 |
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50 | (2) |
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Winston Churchill, "This was their finest hour," 18 June 1940 |
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52 | (2) |
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Barack Obama, "America is a place where all things are possible," 4 November 2008 |
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54 | (7) |
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Abraham Lincoln, "Until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword," 4 March 1865 |
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61 | (3) |
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John F. Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for you," 20 January 1961 |
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64 | (4) |
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "The ability of human beings to make and remake themselves for the better," December 2012 |
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68 | (3) |
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Malala Yousafzai, "One pen and one book can change the world," 12 July 2013 |
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71 | (3) |
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Mohandas Gandhi, "I have faith in the righteousness of our cause," 11 March 1930 |
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74 | (3) |
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Susan B. Anthony, "Are women persons?," February-June 1873 |
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77 | (4) |
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Elizabeth II, "We will be with our friends; we will be with our families; we will meet again," 5 April 2020 |
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81 | (6) |
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George S. Patton Jr., "I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging sonofabitch Hider," 5 June 1944 |
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87 | (2) |
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Alexander the Great, "You have Alexander," November 333 BC |
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89 | (2) |
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George W. Bush, "Today, our nation saw evil," ii September 2001 |
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91 | (2) |
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Tim Collins, "Tread lighdy there," 19 March 2003 |
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93 | (3) |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A date which will live in infamy," 8 December 1941 |
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96 | (5) |
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Cleopatra, "I will not be triumphed over," 30> BC |
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101 | (1) |
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Oliver Cromwell, "In the name of God, go!," 20 April 1653 |
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102 | (2) |
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Ronald Reagan, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!," 12 June 1987 |
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104 | (3) |
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Winston Churchill, "The Few," 20 August 1940 |
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107 | (4) |
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Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, "By God I'll grind you down to dust," Kufa, Iraq, AD 694 |
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111 | (1) |
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Nikolai Yezhov, Josef Stalin and others, "These swine must be strangled," 4 December 1936 |
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112 | (4) |
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, "Declare the Caliphate," 29 June 2014 |
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116 | (1) |
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Genghis Khan, "The greatest pleasure," 13th century |
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117 | (1) |
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Osama bin Laden, "America is struck," 7 October 2001 |
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118 | (3) |
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Maximilien Robespierre, "Virtue and terror," 5 February 1794 |
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121 | (8) |
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Socrates, "The unexamined life is not worth living," 399 BC |
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129 | (6) |
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Nikolai Yezhov, "Shoot me quietly," 3 February 1940 |
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135 | (8) |
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Richard Nixon, "No whitewash at the White House," 30 April 1973 |
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143 | (3) |
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Neville Chamberlain, "Peace for our time," 30 September 1938 |
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146 | (1) |
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Adolf Hider, "I am at the head of the strongest army in the world," 11 December 1941 |
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147 | (10) |
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Theodora, "Imperial purple is the noblest burial sheet," AD 532 |
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157 | (1) |
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Josef Stalin, "We need new blood," 16 October 1952 |
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158 | (4) |
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Abraham Lincoln, "Government of the people, by the people, for the people," 19 November 1863 |
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162 | (2) |
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Donald Trump, "Make America great again," 16 June 2015 |
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164 | (6) |
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Aung San Suu Kyi, "It is not power that corrupts, but fear," July 1991 |
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170 | (3) |
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Xi Jinping, "History is our best teacher," 14 May 2017 |
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173 | (3) |
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Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, "While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last," 7 November 2020 |
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176 | (9) |
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Anwar al-Sadat, "I have come to Jerusalem, as the City of Peace," 20 November 1977 |
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185 | (4) |
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Yitzhak Rabin, "Enough of blood and tears," 13 September 1993 |
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189 | (6) |
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Georges Danton, "Dare, dare again, always dare!," 2 September 1792 |
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195 | (1) |
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Mao Zedong, "The Chinese people have stood up!," 21 September 1949 |
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196 | (3) |
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, "Power to the Soviets," September 1917 |
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199 | (2) |
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Ruhollah Khomeini, "I shall smash this government in the teeth," February 1979 |
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201 | (4) |
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Urban II, "Enter upon the road to the Holy Sepulchre," 27 November 1095 |
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205 | (4) |
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Cato the Elder, "Carthage must be destroyed!," 149 BC |
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209 | (4) |
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Adolf Hitler, "The annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe," 30 January 1939 |
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213 | (1) |
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Heinrich Himmler, "The Jewish people are going to be exterminated," 4 October 1943 |
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214 | (7) |
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Elie Wiesel, "The perils of indifference," 12 April 1999 |
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221 | (6) |
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Boris Yeltsin, "We are all guilty," 18 July 1998 |
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227 | (2) |
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Chaim Herzog, "Hate, ignorance and evil," 10 November 1975 |
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229 | (8) |
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Moses, "Thou shall not kill," Exodus 20, Verses 1-26 |
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237 | (3) |
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Jesus of Nazareth, "Blessed are the poor in spirit," Sermon on the Mount, St. Matthew's Gospel, AD 1st century |
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240 | (2) |
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The Prophet Muhammad, "Turn then your face toward the Sacred Mosque," from the Surah al-Baqarah ("The Cow"), Verse 2 (144-50), AD 7th century |
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242 | (5) |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, "We are not only scientists; we are men, too," 2 November 1945 |
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247 | (2) |
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Greta Thunberg, "We can't solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis," 3 December 2018 |
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249 | (6) |
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Eva Peron, "Remain faithful to Peron," 17 October 1951 |
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255 | (4) |
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Martin Luther King Jr., "I've seen the Promised Land," 3 April 1968 |
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259 | (4) |
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Attila the Hun, funeral address by his henchman, "Lord of the bravest tribes fell neither by an enemy's blow nor by treachery, but rejoicing," AD 453 |
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263 | (1) |
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Richard Nixon, "Nobody will ever write a book about my mother," 9 August 1974 |
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264 | (5) |
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William Pitt the Younger, "Europe is not to be saved by any single man," 9 November 1805 |
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269 | (1) |
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Nero, "What an artist the world is losing in me," 9 June AD 68 |
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270 | (3) |
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Barack Obama, "We do these things because of who we are," 1 May 2011 |
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273 | (5) |
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Napoleon Bonaparte, "Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell," 20 April 1814 |
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278 | (1) |
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Edward VIII, "The woman I love," ii December 1936 |
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279 | (2) |
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Alexander the Great, "Depart!," August 324 BC |
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281 | (6) |
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Charles I, "I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown," 30 January 1649 |
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287 | (3) |
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Ronald Reagan, "Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue," 28 January 1986 |
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290 | (5) |
| Acknowledgments |
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295 | (2) |
| Copyright Acknowledgments |
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