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Several days later, Douglass delivered his first speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual convention in Nantucket.
Then 23 years old, Douglass conquered his nervousness and gave an eloquent speech about his rough life as a slave.
In a speech delivered on November 15, 1867, Douglass said " A man's rights rest in three boxes.
Douglass ' stump speech for 25 years after the end of the Civil War was to emphasize work to counter the racism that was then prevalent in unions.
* July 4 – Frederick Douglass delivers his famous speech " The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro " in Rochester, New York.
Douglass later found Stone at fault for speaking at a whites-only Philadelphia lecture hall, but Stone insisted that she had replaced her planned speech that day with an appeal to the audience to boycott the facility.
Echoes of Walker ’ s Appeal can be heard most vividly, for example, in Frederick Douglass ’ s famous 1852 speech, “ The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro .”
Douglass delivered his fiery speech " The Meaning of July Fourth to the Negro " before the Rochester Ladies Antislavery Association at Corinthian Hall, Rochester, on July 5, 1852.
Frederick Douglass always recited this speech on stage when playing Curran.

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In the remainder of his speech Davis spoke of his admiration for Brown and warned those who took part in the meeting that they `` are liable to the charge that they are supporting traitors and upholding men whom the laws have condemned ''.
In his first and last speech in the Senate, Johnson spoke eloquently in opposition to Grant's military intervention between rival governments in Louisiana, when the gubernatorial election was disputed and Democratic supporters ousted the winning Republican side with armed force in New Orleans.
Although he spoke with apprehension at his award speech about the danger which the authority of the prize would lend to an economist, the prize brought much greater public awareness of Hayek and has been described by his biographer as " the great rejuvenating event in his life ".
During this period, Gandhi claimed to be a " highly orthodox Hindu " and in January 1921 during a speech at a temple in Vadtal, he spoke of the relevance of non-cooperation to Hindu Dharma, " At this holy place, I declare, if you want to protect your ' Hindu Dharma ', non-cooperation is first as well as the last lesson you must learn up.
* In The Transformers, the Autobot Warpath spoke with onomatopoeia in his speech, which included " Wham ", " Bang ", " Blam ", " Whack ", " Woosh ", " Bam ", " Zoom ", " Zap ", " Boom ", " Wow ", " Clang ", " Pow ", and " Boing " among others.
Truth's own speech pattern was not Southern in nature, as she was born and raised in New York, and spoke only Dutch until she was nine years old.
Other eyewitness reports of Truth's speech told a calm story, one where all faces were " beaming with joyous gladness " at the session where Truth spoke ; that not " one discordant note " interrupted the harmony of the proceedings.
For the first part of her speech, she spoke mainly about the rights of black women.
* 10 March 1876 — The first successful telephone transmission of clear speech using a liquid transmitter when Bell spoke into his device, “ Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you .” and Watson heard each word distinctly.
Harding also made a speech fully endorsing labor's right to organize and even spoke against those who sought to destroy labor movements around the country.
In a speech to Congress on 25 May 1961, Kennedy spoke of his deep respect for the United States Army Special Forces.
Pope Paul VI, in a speech to the council fathers, spoke as follows: " This year, the homage of our Council appears much more precious and significant.
They spoke their own speech, which is near to Old Prussian language.
As a boy Demosthenes had a speech impediment: Plutarch refers to a weakness in his voice of " a perplexed and indistinct utterance and a shortness of breath, which, by breaking and disjointing his sentences much obscured the sense and meaning of what he spoke.
Heath's biographer John Campbell speculates that his speech, unlike that of his father and younger brother, who both spoke with Kent accents, must have undergone " drastic alteration on encountering Oxford ", although retaining elements of Kent speech.
Unlike the comic strip, Spidey was never seen out of costume as his alter-ego, Peter Parker, and he spoke via speech balloons that the home audience had to read.
It is also known that Israelites and later the subdivision of Israelites known as the Judeans spoke Hebrew as their main language and it is still used in Jewish holy scriptures, study, speech and prayer.
President George H. W. Bush, in a speech on September 11, 1990, spoke of a " rare opportunity " to move toward a " new world order " in which " the nations of the world, east and west, north and south, can prosper and live in harmony ", adding that " today the new world is struggling to be born ".
" I am unable to state with certainty what language the Pelasgians spoke, but we could consider the speech of the Pelasgians who still exist in settlements above Tyrrhenia in the city of Kreston, formerly neighbors to the Dorians who at that time lived in the land now called Thessaliotis ; also the Pelasgians who once lived with the Athenians and then settled Plakia and Skylake in the Hellespont ; and along with those who lived with all the other communities and were once Pelasgian but changed their names.
He spoke for twenty minutes on the maintenance of clause 25, while Disraeli was present, and using his experience on the Birmingham School Board to make an impressive speech.
Wilkinson spoke off campus, while more than 1, 500 students viewed Aptheker's speech across a low campus wall at the edge of campus, christened " Dan Moore's Wall " by The Daily Tar Heel for Governor Dan K. Moore.
TVA Chairman Aubrey Wagner, who spoke on the Authority's behalf, was continuously interrupted throughout his speech.
He suffered from a speech impediment and spoke very little until about the age of six.

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To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.
Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.
The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.
A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.
Not that he gave a damn what the grapevine sent out about Killpath's little speech on the comportment of platoon commanders.
After his speech, reporters asked him about the report of his political intentions, published in yesterday's New York Times.
The " Former Standard ," used for about 300 years or more in speech in refined language, was the " Schönbrunner Deutsch ", a sociolect spoken by the imperial Habsburg Family and the nobility of Austria-Hungary.
The hypothesis to Isocrates ' Helen mentions that Anaximenes, too, had written a Helen, " though it is more a defense speech ( apologia ) than an encomium ," and concludes that he was " the man who has written about Helen " to whom Isocrates refers ( Isoc.
( Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters ; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land ; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest ; and at chapter 23 Joshua gives a speech about what must be done if Israel is to live in peace in the land ).
Bliss ’ s concern about semantics finds an early referent in John Locke, whose Essay Concerning Human Understanding prevented people from those " vague and insignificant forms of speech " that may give the impression of being deep learning.
* The Sinews of Peace Winston Churchill speech in 5, March, 1946, warning about the advance of communism in central Europe.
The question of priority, whether for the individual or community, must be determined in dealing with pressing ethical questions about a variety of social issues, such as health care, abortion, multiculturalism, and hate speech.
* CHOI-FM: The CRTC announced it would not renew the licence of the popular CHOI-FM radio station in Quebec City, after having previously sanctioned the station for failing to uphold its promise of performance and then, during the years following, receiving about 50 complaints about offensive behaviour by radio jockeys which similarly contravened CRTC rules on broadcast hate speech.
He chided the senators about their reluctance to debate bills introduced by himself, as noted in the fragments of a surviving speech:
Cyber Patrol, a product developed by The Anti-Defamation League and Mattel's The Learning Company, has been found to block not only political sites it deems to be engaging in ' hate speech ' but also human rights web sites, such as Amnesty International's web page about Israel and gay-rights web sites, such as glaad. org.
In April 2008, Scott Adams announced that United Media would be instituting an interactive feature on Dilbert. com, allowing fans to write speech bubbles and, in the near future, interact with Adams about the content of the strips.
At the funeral Marcela appears, delivering a long speech vindicating herself from the bitter verses written about her by Grisóstomo, claiming her own autonomy and freedom from expectations put on her by Pastoral clichés.
Hofstadter collects and studies cognitive errors ( largely, but not solely, speech errors ), " bon mots " ( spontaneous humorous quips ), and analogies of all sorts, and his long-time observation of these diverse products of cognition, and his theories about the mechanisms that underlie them, have exerted a powerful influence on the architectures of the computational models developed by himself and FARG members.
Mark Liberman calculated the storage requirements for all human speech at 42 zettabytes ( 42, 000 exabytes, and 8, 400 times the original estimate ), if digitized as 16 kHz 16-bit audio, although he did freely confess that " maybe the authors the exabyte estimate were thinking about text.

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