A collection of speeches grouped thematically with a brief introduction that offers historical context, biographical information on the speaker and an analysis of the speech that follows.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
"Cast off the yoke of bondage" / John Ball -- "Give me liberty or give me death!" / Patrick Henry -- Opposition to the harms of British rule / Mohandas K. Gandhi -- Human Rights, democracy, and women's emancipation / Daw Aung San Suu Kyi -- "We also have a religion" / Chief Red Jacket -- Free speech is a fundamental right / Jean-Paul Marat -- Citizens must have the right to criticize their leaders / Wei Jingsheng -- "We are all human beings" / Tenzin Gyatso -- "Free speech is life itself" / Salman Rushdie -- The state must all religious freedom / John Paul II -- A plea for worker's rights / Seth Luther -- "Aren't I a woman?" / Sojourner Truth -- "What to the American slave, is your fourth of July?" / Frederick Douglass -- The Emancipation of the proletarian / Karl Marx -- "In behalf of his despised poor" / John Brown -- "Are women persons?" / Susan B. Anthony -- "I have a dream" / Martin Luther King Jr. -- "We want equal political rights" / Nelson Mandela -- Adoption of the Declaration of Human Rights / Eleanor Roosevelt -- "Peace, progress, human rights" / Andrei Sakharov -- Neutrality is a sin / Elie Wiesel -- The rights of indigenous people / Rigoberta Menchu Tum -- Globalization and human rights / Pierre Sane -- Human trafficking and the global sex industry: a human rights framework / Mary Robinson.