00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861482881 Buklod 20230619085743.0 j|||||||||||||| | ta 160524s1992 nyua rb |||1 u|eng d 0062700308 (iLib)UPBAG-00001190744 OLC BAG rda eng JC 421 D45 The Democracy reader classic and modern speeches, essays, poems, declarations, and documents on freedom and human rights worldwide edited by Diane Ravitch and Abigail Thernstrom. New York HarperCollins [1992] xii, 331 pages illustrations 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Classical and European thought -- The Peloponnesian war / Thucydides -- The republic / Plato -- The politics / Aristotle -- Summa Theologica / Thomas Aquinas -- The dicourses / Niccolo Macciaveli -- Areopagitica / John Milton -- Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- A letter concerning toleration -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Notes on the state of Virginia-religion -- What I like and don't -- On the Bill of Rights -- First inaugural adddress / Thomas Jefferson -- Corresondence on women's rights / Abigail and John Adams -- Virginia Bill of Rights / George Mason -- Massachusetts slave petition -- Speech at the Constitutional Convention / Benjamin Franklin -- The Constitution of the United States of America -- The Federalsit No. 9,10,39,51,70 / Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- Farewell address / George Washington -- 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 -- First inaugural address -- Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- South Carolina secession statement -- 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 -- Bread and freedom / Sidney Hook -- The four freedoms / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette / Robert H. Jackson -- Stride toward freedom -- 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 Miedzyrzecki -- Report from the besieged city -- The power of taste / Zbigniew Herbert -- Nobel Peace Prize lecture / Lech Walesa -- Charter 77 Declaration -- The power of the powerless -- New Year's address / Vaclav Havel -- A few remarks -- The reburiel of Imre Nagy / Viktor Orban -- Romania: the grim island of South-Eastern Europe / Helmut Frauendorfer -- A star in my street / Ana Blandiana -- Rejecting hatred / Vytautas Landsbergis -- The fifth moderization / Wei Jingsheng -- Trial of Wei Jingsheng -- The answer -- 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 -- I am a child of Burma / Nyein Chan -- Ape and man / Nguyen Chi Thien -- 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 -- Separation / Sherko Bekas -- In defense of free speech / Luis Aguilar -- Poems of the Cuban revolution / Herberto Padilla -- Press conference / Mauricio Redoles -- Latin American 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. Classic and modern speeches, essays, poems, declarations, and documents on freedom and human rights worldwide--Subtitle. Also issued online. Democracy History. Ravitch, Diane editor. Thernstrom, Abigail M. 1936- editor. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN JC 421 D45 Book