Famous Orators

• Cicero

  The Roman statesman who stood up to Marc Antony

• Douglass, Frederick

  Former slave turned anti-slavery leader

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  A founder of Transcendentalism

• Newman, John Henry

  The Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism

• Truth, Sojourner

  The freed slave and activist who said "Ain't I a Woman?"

See: Index by Occupation