The Democracy reader : classic and modern speeches, essays, poems, declarations, and documents on freedom and human rights worldwide

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Classical and European thought. The Peloponnesian War / Thucydides

The republic / Plato

The politics / Aristotle

Summa theologica / Thomas Aquinas

The discourses / Niccolò Machiavelli

Areopagitica / John Milton

Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes

A letter concerning toleration / John Locke

Second treatise of civil government / John Locke

The spirit of laws / Charles De Montesquieu

Discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality / Jean-Jacques Rousseau

On election to parliament / Edmund Burke

Letter to the sheriffs of Bristol / Edmund Burke

The declaration of the rights of man and citizen / National Assembly of France

The liberty of the ancients compared with that of the moderns / Benjamin Constant

Jewish disabilities / Thomas Babington Macaulay

The prelude / William Wordsworth

On liberty / John Stuart Mill

The subjection of women / John Stuart Mill

The English Constitution / Walter Bagehot

Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche

September 1, 1939 / W.H. Auden

England, your England / George Orwell

The iron curtain / Winston Churchill

Two concepts of liberty / Isaiah Berlin

On human conduct / Michael Oakeshott. The American experience. Massachusetts body of liberties

The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson

Correspondence on women's rights / Abigail and John Adams

Virginia Bill of Rights / George Mason

Massachusetts slave petition

Notes on the state of Virginia

religion / Thomas Jefferson

Speech at the Constitutional Convention / Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution of the United States of America

The Federalist no. 9, 10, 39, 51, 70 / Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay

What I like and don't / Thomas Jefferson

On the Bill of Rights / Thomas Jefferson

Farewell address / George Washington

First inaugural adddress / Thomas Jefferson

Marbury v. Madison / John Marshall

Proclamation on nullification / Andrew Jackson

Democracy in America / Alexis De Tocqueville

Introduction to Democratic review

Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

Civil disobedience / Henery David Thoreau

Speech at Peoria / Abraham Lincoln

South Carolina secession statement

First inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln

Women's right to vote / Susan B. Anthony

Address to the American Missionary Association / Frederick Douglass

Dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson / John Marshall Harlan

Dissent from Abrams v. United States / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Bread and freedom / Sidney Hook

The four freedoms / Franklin Delano Roosevelt

West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette / Robert H. Jackson

Stride toward freedom / Martin Luther King, Jr

Letter from Birmingham city jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. Contemporary international democratic ideas. International Declaration of Human Rights

Nobel Prize / Boris Pasternak

Live not by lies / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Peace, progress, and human rights / Andrei Sakharov

Why must we be grateful? / Sergei Grigoryants

The official Polish press on the events of March 1968 / Jakub Karpinski

The right to historical truth / Adolf Juzwenko

What does the political scientist know? / Artur Międzyrzecki

Report from the besieged city / Zbigniew Herbert

The power of taste / Zbigniew Herbert

Nobel Peace Prize lecture / Lech Wałęsa

Charter 77 Declaration

The power of the powerless / Václav Havel

A few remarks

New Year's address / Václav Havel

The reburial of Imre Nagy / Viktor Orbán

Romania : the grim island of south-eastern Europe / Helmut Frauendorfer

A star in my street / Ana Blandiana

Rejecting hatred / Vytautas Landsbergis

The fifth modernization / Wei Jingsheng

Trial of Wei Jingsheng

The answer / Bei Dao

Declaration / Bei Dao

Appeal to Deng Xiaoping / Fang Lizhe

The May 19 petition

Poems from Tiananmen square

Statement of the Federation for a Democratic China

Human rights in China / Fang Lizhe. The dream of a people / Nyein Chan

I am a child of Burma / Nyein Chan

Ape and man / Nguyễn Chí Thiện

In good faith / Salman Rushdie

Statement at the Rivonia trial / Nelson Mandela

An open letter to citizen Mobutu Sese Seko

The universitality of basic rights / Gibson Kamau Kuria

Protest against his arrest / Gitobu Imanyara

Today the Somalis, tomorrow ... / Mweni Mwangeka

200 vs. 20,000,000 / Mwelu Mutuku

Religion and human rights / Wole Soyinka

Testimony of an ex-censor / Anonymous

Memoir of terror / Nabil Janabi

The roots / Sherko Bekas

Separation / Sherko Bekas

In defense of free speech / Luis Aguilar

Poems of the Cuban Revolution / Herberto Padilla

Press conference / Mauricio Redoles

Latin America and democracy / Octavio Paz

Latin America : the democratic option / Mario Vargas Llosa

The charter of Paris for a new Europe

Bloody Sunday in Vilnius / Moscow News Board of Directors