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A famous speech from Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War, delivered by Pericles at the end of the first year of the war. The speech praises the achievements and values of Athens, but does not mention the prize of freedom.
Learn about the history and controversy of Sojourner Truth's speech "Ain't I a Woman?", delivered at the Women's Rights Convention in 1851. Compare different versions of the speech and their sources, and how they reflect Truth's identity as a black woman and an abolitionist.
They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! – they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.
Megan Meier was a 13-year-old girl who hanged herself in 2006 after being cyberbullied by a fake MySpace account created by a neighbor. The case led to a federal trial and conviction of Lori Drew, the mother of the girl who ran the account, but the conviction was overturned by a judge.
A proverbial phrase is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition. The web page provides an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases with their origins and examples.
The Waste Land is a modernist poem by T. S. Eliot, published in 1922, that explores themes of disillusionment, despair, and fragmentation. The poem draws on diverse sources of literature, myth, and culture, and is divided into five sections.
Helen Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer who was deaf and blind from childhood. She learned to communicate with Anne Sullivan, her teacher and companion, and wrote several books, including her autobiography The Story of My Life.
Bread and Roses is a political slogan and a poem that originated from a speech by Helen Todd, a women's suffrage activist. The phrase was also associated with the 1912 Lawrence textile strike in Massachusetts, where workers demanded fair wages and dignified conditions.