How to Keep a Slave

Cato the Elder

Hortensia’s Protest

Appian of Alexandria

Letter XLVII

Seneca the Younger

Magna Carta

English Bill of Rights*

Second Treatise of Government*

John Locke

The Social Contract*

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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*

Andrew Jackson

Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln

The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony*

Slavery on the Henequen Plantations of Yucatan

Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost

Independence v. Swaraj

Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi’s Followers Protest the Salt Tax

Webb Miller

The Stalin Epigram

Osip Mandelstam

The Arrest of Osip Mandelstam

Nadezhda Mandelstam

I Will Bear Witness*

Victor Klemperer

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Harlem [2]

Langston Hughes

Survival in Auschwitz*

Primo Levi

Defending Freedom and Freedom of Speech

Luis Aguilar

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Rivonia Trial: Second Court Statement*

Nelson Mandela

Letter to Deng Xiaoping

Wei Jingsheng

The Censors

Luisa Valenzuela

We Say No

Eduardo Galeano

A Few Remarks

Václav Havel, Stanislav Devdry, Jiri Krizan, and Sasa Vondra

Comrades

Nadine Gordimer

The War and the Law

Max Frankel

Safeguard Your Lives

Jan Wong

Red Scarf Girl*

Ji-li Jiang

My Forbidden Face*

Latifa

The Perplexities of the Rights of Man

Hannah Arendt

The Cancer of Human Rights*

John A. Gentry

Promoting Human Rights

William F. Schulz

Let's Fight Terrorism, Not the Constitution

David Cole

Confusing Freedom with License

Douglas W. Kmiec

Moral Prohibition at a Price

Michael Ignatieff

Should We Fight Terror with Torture?

Alan Dershowitz

*Indicates a selection taken from a longer work.