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1954 Nobel Prize for Literature Acceptance Speech
by Ernest Hemingway
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"How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written."
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1960 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address
by John F. Kennedy
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"I am telling you what you are entitled to know: As I come before you seeking your support for the most powerful office in the free world -- I am saying to you that my decisions on every public policy will be my own…"
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1960 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address
by Richard M. Nixon
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"Let me tell you something of the goals of this better America toward which we will strive."
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1976 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address
by Jimmy Carter
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"The test of any government is not how popular it is with the powerful, but how honestly and fairly it deals with those who must depend on it."
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1980 Democratic National Convention Address
by Edward M. Kennedy
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"Our cause has been, since the days of Thomas Jefferson, the cause of the common man and the common woman."
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1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address
by Ronald Reagan
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"I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership..."
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1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address
by Mario Cuomo
Available on:
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"A Tale of Two Cities"
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1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address
by Jesse Jackson
Available on:
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"From Fannie Lou Hamer in Atlantic City in 1964 to the Rainbow Coalition in San Francisco today; from the Atlantic to the Pacific, we have experienced pain but progress, as we ended American apartheid laws."
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1988 Democratic National Convention Address
by Jesse Jackson
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"When I look out at this convention, I see the face of America: Red, Yellow, Brown, Black and White. We are all precious in God's sight -- the real rainbow coalition."
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1988 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address
by Ann Richards
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"In July 1988 in Atlanta, GA Ann Richards delivered this speech..."
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