US Dollars
This expanded edition of Citizens of the World is a comprehensive anthology for readers interested in how the concept of human rights has developed throughout history. Selections ranging from memoir and fiction to legal and historical documents help readers understand how abstract concepts such as the rule of law, freedom, and human dignity have evolved. The discussion questions accompanying each selection will stimulate vibrant and meaningful dialogue.
- How to Keep a Slave
- Hortensia’s Protest
- Letter XLVII
- Magna Carta
- English Bill of Rights*
- Second Treatise of Government*
- The Social Contract*
- Declaration of Independence
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- Constitution of the United States of America (Preamble and Bill of Rights)
- State of the Union Address*
- Emancipation Proclamation
- The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony*
- Slavery on the Henequen Plantations of Yucatan
- Independence v. Swaraj
- Gandhi’s Followers Protest the Salt Tax
- The Stalin Epigram
- The Arrest of Osip Mandelstam
- I Will Bear Witness*
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Harlem [2]
- Survival in Auschwitz*
- Defending Freedom and Freedom of Speech
- Letter from Birmingham Jail
- The Rivonia Trial: Second Court Statement*
- Letter to Deng Xiaoping
- The Censors
- We Say No
- A Few Remarks
- Comrades
- The War and the Law
- Safeguard Your Lives
- Red Scarf Girl*
- My Forbidden Face*
- The Perplexities of the Rights of Man
- The Cancer of Human Rights*
- Promoting Human Rights
- Let's Fight Terrorism, Not the Constitution
- Confusing Freedom with License
- Moral Prohibition at a Price
- Should We Fight Terror with Torture?
*Indicates a selection taken from a longer work.
