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Words Matter Week Day 2: Most Important Document in History

Words can change history. What speech or document do you believe to be most important? Why? My answer to the Words Matter Week 2011 challenge, day 2.

An illuminated text Words can change history. What speech or document do you believe to be most important? Why?

Since I’m writing a bit late on these prompts, I have the advantage of seeing what others have chosen. Many moving examples have been suggested, and most are or have been the “most important” speech or document of their age.

In choosing the one I believe to be most important, though, I think I will have to side with Hollee at HolleeDaze Ink who chose the Sermon on the Mount. It’s a concise outline of what Christianity looks like when practiced from the inside out, rather than from the outside in as the Pharisees had been doing.

By Janice Campbell

Writer, reader, logophile, creative. I love turning words into books!