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A
Bella Abzug
Susan B. Anthony
William Apess

B
Ella Baker
Kicking Bear
Albert Beveridge
William Jennings Bryan
Patrick Buchanan
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush

C
Helen Caldicott
Stokely Carmichael
Jimmy Carter
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
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D
Clarence Darrow
Dorothy Day
Eugene Debs

E
Jonathan Edwards
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F
Louis Farrakhan
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Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick

G
Bill Gates

H
Fannie Lou Hamer
Warren G. Harding
Frances Watkins Harper
Abraham Joshua Heschel
J. Edgar Hoover

J
Robert H. Jackson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones

K
John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
John F. Kerry
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

L
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
John Lewis
John L. Lewis
Abraham Lincoln
Huey P. Long 

M
Horace Mann
James McGreevey
Harvey Milk
Bob Moses
Clelia Duel Mosher

O
Barack Obama

P
Paul Potter

Q
James Danforth Quayle, III

R
Ronald Reagan
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt

S
Mario Savio
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Gloria Steinem
Adlai E. Stevenson
Maria W. Miller Stewart

T
Harry S. Truman
Sojourner Truth

V
Mabel Vernon

W
George Wallace
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
Woodrow Wilson
Victoria C. Woodhull
Frances “Fanny” Wright

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Voices of Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project
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College Park, MD 20742-7635

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spg@umd.edu

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