Citizens Of The World
Subtitle: Readings In Human Rights
Publisher: Great Books Foundation
Published: August 2004
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780945159360
Subjects: Political Science; Politics - Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; General; Human rights
Table of contents: title: 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 the 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 the 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 Sosa 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