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"A house divided against itself cannot stand.", opening lines of Abraham Lincoln's famous 1858 "A House Divided" speech, addressing the division between slave states and free states in the United States at the time. "Four score and seven years ago...", opening of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. [3]
"A time for greatness" – U.S. presidential campaign theme of John F. Kennedy (Kennedy also used "We Can Do Better" and "Leadership for the 60s"). "Peace, Experience, Prosperity" – Richard Nixon's slogan showing his expertise over Kennedy.
Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan; Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans; Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin; popularized in the United States following 2014 protests in ...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Fair Housing Act of 1968 were all passed during this time, and Democratic support for racial justice attracted even more Black voters.
"The Dream Shall Never Die" was a speech delivered by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy during the 1980 Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden, New York City.In his address, Kennedy defended post-World War II liberalism, advocated for a national healthcare insurance model, criticized Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan, and implicitly rebuked incumbent president Jimmy Carter ...
That illustrates one of the Democrats’ top goals for this convention: clearly define their party’s presidential nominee to the public, as the Republicans race to define her on their terms. (5) 45%
Representative Nancy Pelosi called it "one of the top ten speeches in history." [39] Andrei Cherny wrote, "A hundred years from now, if there is one speech that people will study and remember from a Democratic politician in the last quarter of the 20th century, it will rightly be Cuomo's 1984 address. It is hard to overstate the impact it had ...
In June 2023, 10 Democratic governors authored a letter to publishers opposing school textbook censorships, accusing them of caving in to the “unreasonable” demands of Republican governors.