Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Cold War Communism vs. democracy International politics

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Source

First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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American President National leader Politician

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United States

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1953, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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I doubt whether any of these people, with their academic or dogmatic hatred of war, detest it as much as I do. They probably have not seen the bodies rotting on the ground and smelled the stench of decaying human flesh...What separates me from the pacifists is that I hate the Nazis more than I hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Time
1943 1940s 20th century
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Eisenhower, Dwight D. Letter to Arthur Eisenhower. 2 July. 1943.

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What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore -
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over -
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

Harlem

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Broken dreams Dreams

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Langston Hughes
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Harlem
Medium
Poem
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English
Time
1951 1950s 20th century
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Hughes, Langston. "Harlem." Montage of a Dream Deferred. Holt, 1951.

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What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy.

Francis Fukuyama

The End of History?

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Cold War End of history Democracy International politics
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Francis Fukuyama
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Medium
Essay
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English
Time
1989 1980s 20th century
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Fukuyama, Francis. "The End of History?" National Interest, summer 1989.

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If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?

Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
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Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln Presidential inaugural address
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
1865 1860s 19th century
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Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1865, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugral Address, March 4, 1865." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.