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978-0-7391-3594-5 • Hardback • December 2011 • $135.00 • (£104.00)
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Derek Malone-France is associate professor of religion and writing and director of the University Writing Program at The George Washington University.
General Preface
Foreword to Volume Two
Chapter 1: The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, et al.
Chapter 2: Manifesto of the Communist Party
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles
Chapter 3: Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Chapter 4: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass
Chapter 5: God and the State
Mikhail Bakunin
Chapter 6: J’accuse… !
Emile Zola
Chapter 7: Of the Sons of Master and Man
W. E. B. Du Bois
Chapter 8: Freedom or Death
Emmeline Pankhurst
Chapter 9: Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Chapter 10: The International Development of China
Sun Yat-sen
Chapter 11: Statement at the “Great Trial” of 1922
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Chapter 12: Einstein, Oxnam, and the Inquisition
I. F. Stone
Chapter 13: Milestones
Sayyid Qutb
Chapter 14: Letter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chapter 15: In Quest of Democracy
Aung San Suu Kyi
Chapter 16: Charter 08
Chinese Human Rights Defenders
Copyright Notices
About the Editor
This second volume of Political Dissent brings together a set of forceful, eloquent, and accessible readings—from The Seneca Falls Declaration to Charter 08 of the Chinese Human Rights Defenders, from Thoreau to Einstein, Gandhi to Qutb, Douglass to Du Bois to King. Derek Malone-France has done a remarkable job of selecting diverse and important statements of dissent, and of offering a lucid, concise introduction to each. His book is an important resource for anyone interested in how writers have argued for political and intellectual freedom.
— Joseph Harris, Duke University
Readers can certainly find these selections elsewhere, but the strength of this volume lies in how well the author has framed this collection of writings. This work goes a long way towards illuminating dissent as a vital genre of rhetoric and literature. The short essays which introduce each selection are very well-written, accessible, and grounded within the particular debates and historical conditions animating each author.
— Cedric Johnson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
We normally think of “dissent” as minority opinion, as side-currents from the mainstream. By drawing on a wide variety of examples from around the world, this fine collection shows how dissenters are, indeed, lonely and courageous voices within their historical contexts, but also squarely at the center of the universal human quest for freedom, equality, and justice. The dissenters collected here, if put in the same room, would easily agree on fundamentals, and would speak for the mainstream of humanity.
— Perry Link, University of California, Riverside