What are both Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and King's Nobel Prize acceptance speech asking of their audiences?A.To keep fighting for what they believe inB.To pressure the South to abolish slaveryC.To practice only nonviolent methodsD.To give the speaker the power to end a warSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS
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What are both Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and King's Nobel Prize acceptance speech asking of their audiences?A.To keep fighting for what they believe inB.To pressure the South to abolish slaveryC.To practice only nonviolent methodsD.To give the speaker the power to end a warSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS
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Both Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and King's Nobel Prize acceptance speech are asking their audiences A. To keep fighting for what they believe in.
In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln urged his listeners to continue the fight for a nation "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." He asked them to resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, and that the nation shall have a new birth of freedom.
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about the ongoing struggle for civil rights and equality. He stated that he accepted the award on behalf of those who were engaged in that struggle. He urged his listeners to continue the fight, saying, "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
Neither speech explicitly asks for the abolition of slavery in the South (B), as slavery had already been abolished by the time of King's speech. Neither speech explicitly asks for only nonviolent methods to be practiced (C), although King was a proponent of nonviolence. Neither speech asks for the speaker to be
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these passages from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.Gettysburg AddressIt is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance SpeechYet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvellous age in which we live men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.Based on these passages, what do both authors believe is worth fighting for?A.Honoring the deadB.Freedom and equalityC.Solving world hungerD.Better schools for students
Click to read the passages from "Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance," by Martin Luther King Jr, and the Gettysburg Address, by Abraham Lincoln. Then answer the question.What concept do both speeches have in common?A.People will write down all of their names so that no one will confuse the situation.B.Perhaps names will be forgotten, but the sacrifice for freedom will always be appreciated.C.The world will never remember how hard they worked.D.Women should have the right to vote because they are legally included as citizens of this country, too.
According to the primary source film, Abraham Lincoln's famous speech, "Gettysburg Address" would serve best as a secondary source?Group of answer choicesTrueFalse
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