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A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown’s execution onDecember 2, 1859. It was later published as a part of Echoes of Harper's Ferry in 1860.

Excerpt from "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech by Malcolm X.

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 "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base.  We run the race of discovery against the Germans.  We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war; in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.  We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan’s power to make war."

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Kofi Annan has made his final speech as UN secretary general, calling on the US not to lose sight of its core principles in its fight on terror.