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REPORT ON ORATOR
CLASSICAL GREEK
Gorgias
Protagoras
Isocrates
Plato
Aristotle
Demosthenes
CLASSICAL ROMAN
Cato
Cicero
Quintilian
EARLY CHURCH
St. Paul
St. Augustine
MIDDLE AGES
Bede
Joan of Arc
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Thomas Aquinas
REFORMATION
John Wyclif
Martin Luther
John Knox
John Calvin
COUNTER-REFORMATION
St. Ignatius
FRANCE
Robespierre
Napoleon
ENGLAND
John Lyly Benjamin Disraeli
Oliver Cromwell William Gladstone
Robert Walpole Thomas Huxley
John Wesley
William Pitt
Edmund Burke
EARLY AMERICAN
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
Cotton Mather
Jonathan Edwards
Ben Franklin
Samuel Adams
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Henry Clay
John Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Ralph Emerson
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Henry Ward Beecher
Robert Ingersoll
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Woodrow Wilson
Dale Carnegie
Clarence Darrow
George Patton
Theordore Roosevelt
Arnold Schwartzkoff
William Jennings Bryant
Will Rogers
Mohandas Gandhi
Winston Churchill
Douglas MacArthur
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Adolf Hitler
Charles de Gaulle
Nikita Khrushchev
Everett Dirksen
Adlai Stevenson
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
John Kennedy
Fidel Castro
Martin Luther King
Phyllis Schafley
Malcolm X
Jessie Jackson
Ronald Reagan
BLACK ORATORS
Marcus Garvey
Malcolm Little (Malcolm X)
James Weldon Johnson
Adam Clayton Powell
Barbara Jordan
Booker T. Washington
A. Phillip Randolph
Ralph D. Abernathy
Stokley Carmichael
Eldridge Cleaver
Julian Bond
Frederick Douglass
Dick Gregory
Coretta Scott King
Shirley Chisholm
Angela Davis
Lorrane Hansberry
Ida Wells
Thurgood Marshall
Sojourner Truth
WOMEN
Molly Yard
Ann Richards
Julia Ward Howe
Germaine Greer
Betty Friedan
Patricia Schroeder
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Peggy Noonan
Cokie Roberts
Geraldine Ferraro
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sandra Day O'Connor