Knox College Commencement Address (2005), delivered while he was the Illinois junior senator ( Read more... )

Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) distinguished himself as a lawyer for the NAACP and later served on the US Supreme Court. He delivered "The Constitution: A Living Document" (1987) at the Annual Seminar of San Francisco Patent and Trademark Law Conference in Maui, Hawaii ( Read more... )

The first African-American woman elected to the US Congress, Shirley Chisholm delivered "The Black Woman in Contemporary America" (1974) at a conference on black women in America at the University of Missouri, Kansas City ( Read more... )

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) delivered "I Have a Dream" from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 Civil Rights March. In the "symbolic shadow" of the signer of the Emancipation Proclamation, one hundred years later King acknowledges the "tragic fact that the Negro still is not free ( Read more... )

Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA), Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) delivered "The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1922. The speech states the objectives of the UNIA, "the movement through which the new and rising Negro would give expression of his feelings." The ( Read more... )

A journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) delivered "This Awful Slaughter" (1909) at the NAACP's first annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Her speech addresses the following points ( Read more... )

An educator, author, social activist, and co-founder and first president of the National Association of Colored Women, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) delivered "What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States" in 1906 at the United Women's Club in Washington, DC ( Read more... )

Zeus abandons the Trojan war once Hector and his Trojans start fighting for the ships. The father god isn't entirely omniscient; he doesn't predict that the other gods will attempt to thwart his will.

[Spoiler (click to open)]Disguised Poseidon urges the Argives on. "His voice like a shock wave, / the god of the earthquake ( Read more... )

[Spoiler (click to open)]The Argives neglected to perform the customary ritual sacrifices when they built their trenches and wall.

So in the years to come Poseidon and god Apollo / would set all things to rights once more.A reminder that life will continue after this war and things will eventually return to their proper order ( Read more... )

In book ten, during the night, Odysseus and Diomedes infiltrate the Trojan camp on a spying mission.
[Spoiler (click to open)]The Atrides independently realize they need a war council. Menelaus displays how much he needs his brother's guidance, asking what he should do after he carries out the elder's commands. Agamemnon acknowledges to Nestor that Menelaus depends on him ( Read more... )