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Voices of Democracy Volume 20
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Divinity School Address” (15 July 1838)
by Eric C. Miller, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
pp. 1-12
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Frances E.W. Harper, “We Are All Bound Up Together” (10 May 1866)
by Garth E. Pauley, Calvin University
pp. 13-32
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Madame Chiang Kai-shek (May Ling Soong Chiang), “Address to the U.S. House of Representatives” (18 February 1943)
by Una Kimokeo-Goes, The College of Idaho
pp. 33-52