- How to Keep a Slave
- Cato the Elder
- Hortensia’s Protest
- Appian of Alexandria
- Letter XLVII
- Seneca the Younger
- Magna Carta
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- English Bill of Rights*
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- Second Treatise of Government*
- John Locke
- The Social Contract*
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Declaration of Independence
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- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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- Constitution of the United States of America (Preamble and Bill of Rights)
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- State of the Union Address*
- Andrew Jackson
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Abraham Lincoln
- The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony*
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- 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
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- 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.