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A consecration / John Masefield -- The man with the hoe / Edwin Markham -- Country life / George Crabbe -- Farm Laborers / James Matthew Barrie -- Helotage / Thomas Carlyle -- Played out / Patrick MacGill -- Conventional lies of our civilization / Max Nordau -- Rounding the Horn / John Masefield -- Stokers / Ernest Poole ; excerpt from The Harbor -- The fertilizer man / Upton Sinclair ; excerpt from The Jungle -- Pittsburgh / James Oppenheim -- The song of the wage slave / Robert W. Service ; excerpt from The spell of the Yukon -- A cry from the ghetto / Morris Rosenfeld -- Trousers / John Galsworthy ; excerpt from A Motley -- The song of the shirt / Thomas Hood -- A London sweating den / Jack London ; excerpt from The people of the Abyss -- Environment / Robert Blatchford ; from Merrie England -- The failure of civilization / Frederic Harrison -- Work and pray / Georg Herwegh -- Labor has many sorrows / John L. Lewis -- The happy worker / Harvey Swados -- Wat Tyler / Robert Southey -- The poor-slave household / Thomas Carlyle ; from Sartor Resartus -- The lotus eaters / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Rich and poor / Leo Tolstoy -- Looking backward / Edward Bellamy -- My religion / Leo Tolstoy -- excerpt from A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens -- Paris / Emile Zola -- King Hunger / Leonid Andreyev -- London / William Blake -- London / Heinrich Heine -- Reflections upon poverty / George Gissing ; from The New Grub Street -- The veins of wealth / John Ruskin -- The octopus / Frank Norris -- Progress and poverty / Henry George -- Isabella, or The pot of basil / John Keats -- When the rich came first / Walter Lord ; from A night to remember -- An atmosphere of corruption / John Reed ; from Ten days that shook the world -- Too small a share / Sigmund Freud ; from The future of an illusion -- The ballad of the pleasant life / Bertolt Brecht ; from The threepenny opera -- The medical fraternity / by Philip Wylie ; from Generation of vipers -- A new class emerges / Milovan Djilas -- Nobody Starves / Michael Harrington ; from The other America -- Letter to the Viceroy / Mahatma Gandhi -- The new poverty / John Berger ; from The soul and the operator -- Not guilty / Robert Blatchford -- The punishment of thieves / Sir Thomas More ; from Utopia -- The unemployed problem / Thomas Carlyle ; from Past and Present -- The parish workhouse / George Crabbe -- The bread line / Berton Braley -- The bread affliction / Israel Zangwill ; from Children of the ghetto -- No. 5 John Street / Richard Whiteing -- Night in the slums / Jack London -- A night's lodging / Maxim Gorky -- The menagerie / Upton Sinclair -- Prisons / Emma Goldman -- The prison system / Leo Tolstoy ; from Resurrection -- A sentiment on social reform / Eugene V. Debs -- A hanging in prison / Oscar Wilde ; from The ballad of reading goal -- If this great world / William Wordsworth -- The priestess of humanity / William E. H. Lecky ; from A history of European morals -- Sisterhood / Mary Craig Sinclair -- The bridge of sighs / Thomas Hood -- In the strand / Arthur Symons -- The weak voice of Mercy / Clarence Darrow -- Portrait of the anti-semite / Jean-Paul Sartre -- The untouchables / Katherine Mayo ; from Mother India -- The Empire of cruelty / David Rousset -- Babiy Yar / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- The people's anthem / Ebenezer Elliott -- A hymn / Gilbert K. Chesterton -- The world's way / William Shakespeare -- Written in London, September, 1802 / William Wordsworth -- These populations / Edward Carpenter -- Freedom / James Russell Lowell -- The land question / Cardinal Manning -- Far from the madding crowd / Thomas Gray ; from Elegy written in a country churchyard -- The preface to "Les Miserables" / Victor Hugo -- Preface to "Major Barbara" / George Bernard Shaw -- excerpt from The Jungle / Upton Sinclair -- Our inequality materializes / Matthew Arnold -- Hitherto, it is questionable / John Stuart Mill -- To a foil'd European revolutionaire / Walt Whitman -- The man under the stone / Edwin Markham -- Robinson Crusoe sees inequality / Daniel DeFoe -- Foma Gordyeeff / Maxim Gorky -- Concerning women / Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; from Aurora Leigh -- The wrongfulness of riches / Grant Allen -- Each against all / Charles Fourier -- Despair / Lady Wilde -- Inequality of wealth / George Bernard Shaw -- The two songs / William Blake -- The endurance of the inequalities of life / James Anthony Froude -- Savva / Leonid Andreyev -- The man forbid / John Davidson -- Peasantry / Stephen Crane -- Out of the dark / Helen Keller -- A South Sea islander / Francis W. L. Adams -- Heirs of time / Thomas Wentworth Higginson-- Beyond human might / Bjornstjerne Bjornson -- New prophets and old / Dorothy Day -- Weavers / Heinrich Heine -- An Italian restaurant / W. L. George ; from A Bed of roses -- Death House / Theodore Dreiser ; from An American Tragedy -- Reflections on the guillotine / Albert Camus -- Scottsboro / Langston Hughes -- The empire of hate / David Rousset -- Democracy and Justice / Reinhold Niebuhr ; from The children of light and the children of darkness -- The revolutionary fire / Fidel Castro ; from a letter written in 1953 -- Conscience / Alexander Solzhenitsyn ; from a letter written to three students, October 1967 -- A man's a man for a' that / Robert Burns -- All eyes are opened / Thomas Jefferson -- A vindication of natural society / Edmund Burke -- If there is anything that cannot bear free thought / Wendell Phillips -- The antiquity of freedom / William Cullen Bryant -- Hereditary bondsmen / Lord Byron -- Concerning moderation / Lafcadio Hearn -- Battle hymn of the Chinese Revolution -- Working and taking / Abraham Lincoln ; from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858 -- Address to President Lincoln / International Workingmen's Association ; drafted by Karl Marx -- "New" women / Olive Schreiner -- Boston hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The revolution / Richard Wagner -- Ladies in rebellion / Abigail Adams -- A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen -- Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad ; from Ecclesiastes -- What meaneth a tyrant / Alfonso the Wise -- An open letter to the employers / George W. Russell -- The two reigns of terror / Mark Twain ; from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court -- Europe: the 72nd and 73rd years of these states / Walt Whitman -- Free speech / Sir Leslie Stephen -- The mask of anarchy / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Real Liberty / Henrik Ibsen -- Christmas in Prison / Upton Sinclair ; from The Jungle -- Robbers and Governments / Leo Tolstoy -- "Gunmen" in Israel / Louis Wallis -- "Gunmen" in West Virginia / a Paint Creek Miner -- Political Violence -- The Orator on the Barricade / Victor Hugo ; from Les Miserables -- The Bomb / Frank Harris -- The Rising of the Peasants / Mao Tse-Tung -- The Unanswering Arrow / Albert Camus ; from The Rebel -- Armed Crisis / Carlos Marighella ; from Minimanual of the Urban Guerilla -- A Call for Non-Collaboration / Nelson Mandela ; from The Struggle is My Life -- The Purpose of Revolution / Jean Genet ; from Prisoner of Love -- The Oath -- Moral Persuasion / Steven Biko --

Le Pére Predrix / Charles-Louis Philippe -- The Subjection of Women / John Stuart Mill -- The Old Suffragist / Margaret Widdemer -- On Liberty / John Stuart Mill -- Forcible Feeding / E. Sylvia Pankhurst -- Going to the People / Peter Kropotkin ; from Memoirs of a Revolutionist -- The Revolutionist / Ivan Turgenev -- In a Russian Prison / Peter Kropotkin ; from Memoirs of a Revolutionist -- The Martyrdom of an Anarchist / Hutchins Hapgood -- Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist / Alexander Berkman -- The Seven that were Hanged / Leonid Andreyev -- Chillon / Lord Byron -- Assassination / August Vaillant -- The Walker / Arturo Giovannitti -- That Agony is our Triumph / Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- The Eagle that is Forgotten / Vachel Lindsay -- Johnny Comes Home / Dalton Trumbo ; from Johnny get your gun -- On Difficult Times and Violence / Robert F. Kennedy ; from a speech given after the death of Martin Luther King -- On Going Underground / Nelson Mandela -- Crusaders / Elizabeth Waddell -- Life of Jesus / Ernest Renan -- Jesus the Revolutionist / Walter Rauschenbusch -- To the "Christians" / Francis W. L. Adams -- The Call of the Carpenter / Bouck White -- A Parable / James Russell Lowell -- A Tramp's Confession / Harry Kemp -- The Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- The Image in the Forum / Robert Buchanan -- The Swordless Christ / Percy Adams Hutchison -- In a Siberian Prison Church / Leo Tolstoy ; from Resurrection -- Before a Crucifix / Algernon Charles Swinburnce -- From the Bottom Up / Alexander Irvine -- Tainted Wealth / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- The Collection / Ernest Howard Crosby -- Preface to "Major Barbara" / George Bernard Shaw -- Prince Hagen / Upton Sinclair -- Children of the Dead End / Patrick MacGill -- The Priest and the Devil / Feodor Dostoyevsky -- Exit Salvatore / Clement Wood -- Work According to the Bible / T. M. Bondareff -- Resurrection / Leo Tolstoy -- Sunday / Louis Untermeyer -- The Preacher / Geoffrey Chaucer ; from the Canterbury Tales -- The Reluctant Briber / Lincoln Steffens -- Twentieth Century Socialism / Edmond Kelly -- The True Faith / Rabindranath Tagore -- Brotherhood / Robert de Lammenais -- Priests / James Oppenheim -- The Temperate Soul / Plato -- The Suppressions of History / C. Osborne Ward -- Agis / Plutarch -- The Labor Problem in Egypt ; from the Book of Exodus -- The People / Tommaso Campanella -- Tiberius Gracchus / Plutarch -- Seeking Causes / Plato -- The Promise ; from the Psalms -- Captive Good Attending Captain Ill / Euripdes -- The Co-operative commonwealth / Isaiah II -- Poverty / Alcaeus -- The Beggar's Complaint -- Free Labor / Haggai -- The Lawyer and the Farmer ; from a father to a son -- Farmer and Lawyer Again / William Langland -- Plutus / Aristophanes -- The Muckraker in Persia / Nizami -- The System / Jeremiah -- Ladies of Fashion / Isaiah -- Grafters in Athens / Aristophanes -- Pure Food Agitation / Martin Luther -- The Agitator / Isaiah -- Wall Street / Habakkuk -- Prosperity ; from The Book of Job -- The Leading Citizen / Horace -- Hong's Experiences in Hades / Im Bang -- Monopolies / Martin Luther -- Intemperate Speech ; from The Epistle of James -- Government / Marcus Aurelius -- The Parable of the Hungry Dog ; from the Gospel of Buddha -- Murder by Statue ; from The Stayings of Mencius -- Rebuking a Tyrant / Sadi -- The Eloquent Peasant -- Prayers Without Answers / Homer ; from The Iliad -- The Suffering of Women / Herbert Spencer -- The Nature of Kings ; from the First Book of Samuel -- Divorce in Ancient Babylon ; from the Code of Hammurabi -- King Yu's Misgovernment ; from the She-ching -- The Power of Justice / Manu -- Legislators / Isaiah -- Concerning Wealth / Hesiod -- The Perfect City / Plato -- Concerning Independence / Lucretius -- A Home of Righteousness -- Palaces ; from the Book of Enoch -- Pride in Poverty / Confucius -- Millionaires in Rome / Cicero -- The Ruling Classes / Ezekiel -- Concerning Justice -- Solon / Plutarch -- Concerning Land / Solon -- Concerning Usury ; from The Koran -- Socialism / Wang-An-Shih -- Paradise Lost / John Milton -- Miss Kilmansegg: Her Moral / Thomas Hood -- Northern Farmer: New Style / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Now I lay me down to sleep / John D. Rockefeller, Sr. -- Dipsychus / Arthur Hugh Clough -- Past and Present / Thomas Carlyle -- Utopia / Sir Thomas More -- Don Juan / Lord Byron -- The Cave of Mammon / Edmund Spenser ; The Faerie Queen -- Snobs and Marriage / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair / John Bunyan ; from The Pilgrim's Progress -- This Yellow Slave / William Shakespeare -- The Crown of Wild Olive / John Ruskin -- Hotel Life / Edith Wharton ; from The House of Mirth -- The Parasitic Female / Olive Schreiner -- Evils of Gold / William Shakespeare -- Fifth Avenue, 1915 / Hermann Hagedorn -- The Theory of the Leisure Class / Thorsten Veblen -- In Bohemia / John Boyle O'Reilly -- Co-Operation and Nationality / George W. Russell -- Man the Reformer / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx and Frederick Engels -- Portrait of an American / Louis Untermeyer -- Tono-Bungay / H. G. Wells -- To a Certain Rich Young Ruler / Clement Wood -- Crowds / Gerald Stanley Lee -- Concerning Charity / John R. Lawson -- The Dying Boss / Lincoln Steffens -- The Psychological Misery / Sigmund Freud -- A Ballad of Dead Girls / Dana Burnet -- Romance / Seymour Deming -- A Living Wage / J. Pierpont Morgan -- The Soul's Errand / Sir Walter Raleigh -- The Butcher's Stall / Emile Verhaeren -- The Selling of Love / Edward Carpenter ; from Love's Coming of Age -- Nothing to Fear but Fear / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Commanders of Power / C. Wright Mills ; from The Power Elite -- The Amorality of Money / Lewis H. Lapham ; from Money and Class in America -- The Ambivalence of Money / John Kenneth Galbraith ; from the Age of Uncertainty --

I Sing the Battle / Harry Kemp -- Sartor Resartus / Thomas Carlyle -- The Coming of War / Leo Tolstoy -- The Soldier's Oath / Kaiser Wilhelm II -- Slavery / William Cowper -- The Biglow Papers / James Russell Lowell -- To a Nine-inch Gun / P. F. McCarthy -- Kruppism / Percy Mackaye -- The War Prayer / Mark Twain -- Song of the Exposition / Walt Whitman -- The Illusion of War / Richard LeGallienne -- Buttons / Carl Sandburg -- The Wine Press / Alfred Noyes -- War / William H. Davies -- In Praise of the Warrior / Miguel De Cervantes ; from Don Quixote -- The Arsenal at Springfield / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- War / Chief Joseph -- A Project for a Perpetual Peace / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- A Prayer of the Peoples / Percy Mackaye -- War and Peace / Benjamin Franklin -- I Am Prepared to Receive your Sentence / Eugene V. Debs ; from statement to court, September 1918 -- The End of Isolation / Woodrow Wilson -- The Revolution Betrayed / Leon Trotsky -- Tyranny: U.S.A. / Sinclair Lewis ; from It Can't Happen Here -- Fascism in Italy / George Seldes ; from Sawdust Caesar -- The Peat Bog Soldiers -- Song of the International Brigades / Erich Weinert -- The Dead Don't Count / Theodore Plievier ; from Stalingrad -- The Nazi War Criminals / Robert H. Jackson -- Stalin and Mass Terror / Nikita S. Khrushchev -- Butcher of Human-Kind / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; from The Murder of Lidice -- The Supremacy of Conscience / Norman Thomas -- The Need to be Pacifist / Albert Einstein -- Power / Alexander Solzehenitsyn ; from The First Circle -- To Fight Against Dictatorship / Vaclav Havel ; from Summer Meditations -- The Rescue Party / Masuji Ibuse ; from Black Rain -- To the Goddess of Liberty (New York Harbor) / George Sterling -- The Price of Liberty / Thomas Jefferson -- To the United States Senate / Vachel Lindsay -- A Prophecy / Thomas Jefferson -- An Election Campaign in New York / Reginald Wright Kauffman -- The Doom of Empires / Robert G. Ingersoll -- The Deserted Village / Oliver Goldsmith -- England in 1819 / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Coronation Day / Jack London ; from The People of the Abyss -- The Rights of Man / Thomas Paine -- The Demand of Labor / Abraham Lincoln -- The Victorian Age / Edward Carpenter -- Utopia / Sir Thomas More -- The Rough Rider / Bliss Carman -- The Cultured Classes / Johann Gottlieb Fichte -- The Happiness of Nations / James Mackaye -- The Tragedy of China / Sun Yat-Sen -- America the Beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates -- Paris / Émile Zola -- Monopoly Capitalism / Lenin -- America South / Carleton Beals -- Justice for Hungary -- The Cause of Mexico / Lazaro Cardenas -- For Passive Resistance / Mahatma Gandhi -- The Road to Freedom is Via the Cross / Albert Luthuli -- The Truth Shall be Known / Jomo Kenyatta -- The Children of the Poor / Victor Hugo -- In a Southern Cotton Mill / Elbert Hubbard -- Past and Present / Thomas Carlyle -- The Flower Factory / Florence Wilkinson Evans -- The Beast / Ben B. Lindsay and Harvey J. O'Higgins -- The Cry of the Children / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Child Labor in England / Henry De B. Gibbins -- In the Slums of London / Jack London -- Locksley Hall Fifty Years After / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Slum Children / William H. Davies -- Child Labor / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Waifs and Strays / Arthur Rimbaud -- The Children's Auction / Charles Mackay -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens -- A Modest Proposal / Johnathan Swift ; from A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents or Country, and for making them Beneficial to the Public -- True Education / Voltaire ; from Zadig -- The Way to Freedom / Francisco Ferrer -- Water for the Gardens / Danilo Dolci -- The Leaden-Eyed / Vachel Lindsay ; from The Congo -- Children's Crusade / Christopher Morley -- What To Do / Leo Tolstoy -- Poor Black Girls Having Babies / Angela Davis ; from Facing Common Sense -- The Reserved Section / Wilbur Nesbit -- Penguin Island / Anatole France -- "Mr. Dooley" on Success / Finley Peter Dunne -- The Leisure Classes -- The Pauper's Drive / T. Noel -- Song of the Lower Classes / Ernest Jones -- Zadig / Voltaire -- Diomedes the Pirate to Alexander / François Villon -- Lines / Stephen Crane -- Complaint to my Empty Purse / Geoffrey Chaucer -- For the Other 365 Days / Franklin P. Adams -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes -- A Modern Version / Arthur Guiterman -- The Latest Decalogue / Arthur Hugh Clough -- The Road to Success / John D. Rockefeller Sr. -- "Mr. Dooley" on the Trusts / Finley Peter Dunne -- Thinking / Anatole France -- What the Moon Saw / Vachel Lindsay -- The Furred Law-Cats / François Rabelais ; from Pantagruel -- The Gentleman Inside / Damon Runyon -- Penguin Island / Anatole France -- Why the Socialist Party is Growing / Franklin P. Adams -- The Preacher and the Slave / Joe Hill -- Lines to a Pomeranian Puppy Valued at $3,500 / Louis Untermeyer -- "Mr. Dooley" on Prosperity / Finley Peter Dunne -- The Babble Machines / H. G. Wells ; from When the Sleeper Wakes -- Militancy / Israel Zangwill -- "Mr. Dooley" on Woman Suffrage / Finley Peter Dunne -- What's In a Name? / Jules Feiffer ; from a cartoon strip in 1964 -- Voting / Tom Stoppard ; from Jumpers --

Democratic Vistas / Walt Whitman -- Fires / Wilfrid Wilson Gibson -- What is Art? / Leo Tolstoy -- A Catechism for Workers / August Strindberg -- The Last Word / Matthew Arnold -- The Superior Classes / George D. Herron -- What Life Means to Me / Jack London ; from Revolution -- Chants Communal / Horace Traubel -- No Enemies / Charles Mackay -- An Appeal to the Young / Peter Kropotkin -- The Prophetic Book "Milton" / William Blake -- The Revolution / Richard Wagner -- The Lost Leader / Robert Browning -- Journalism / John Swinton -- The Rebel / Hilaire Belloc -- Ad Valorem / John Ruskin -- For Hire / Morris Rosenfeld -- Jean-Christophe / Romain Rolland -- The Problem Play / George Bernard Shaw -- To a Bourgeois Litterateur / Max Eastman -- The Scholar as Revolutionist / Georg Brandes -- A Warning / Heinrich Heine -- A Man of Genius / George Gissing ; from The New Grub Street -- Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield / Samuel Johnson -- The "Pinch of Poverty" / Francis Thompson -- Learning / Friedrich Nietzsche ; from Thus Spake Zarathustra -- Last Verses / Thomas Chatterton -- The Journal of Arthur Stirling / Upton Sinclair -- The Death of Tom Paine / Howard Fast -- Mother Hubbard's Tale / Edmund Spenser -- A Preface to Politics / Walter Lippmann -- Off Maysi / José Martí -- The March of the Workers / Wililam Morris -- A Marching Song / Charles Algernon Swinburne -- The Duties of Man / Giuseppe Mazzini -- The Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx and Frederick Engels -- The Workingman's Program / Ferdinand Lassalle -- Poverty Makes All Unhappy / John Ruskin -- Land Titles / Herbert Spencer -- The Rights of Labor / Abraham Lincoln -- The Working Day / Karl Marx ; from Capital -- The Internationale / Eugene Pottier -- The One Duty / Maurice Maeterlinck ; from the Measure of the Hours -- The Organization of Labor / Louis Blanc -- From Revolution to Revolution / George D. Herron -- Jurgis Hears a Speech / Upton Sinclair ; from The Jungle -- Renovating the State / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Revolution in the Mind and Practice of the Human Race / Robert Owen -- Mutual Aid as a Factor in Evolution / Peter Kropotkin -- Co-Operation and Nationality / George W. Russell -- New Worlds for Old / H. G. Wells -- Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket / Vachel Lindsay -- Progressivism and After / William English Walling -- From the Magnificent / Mary, Mother of Jesus -- Jimmie Higgins / Ben Hanford -- The Marseillaise / Claude Joseph Rouget De Lisle -- The Necessity of Socialism / Sidney Webb -- Democracy and Socialism / Mikhail Gorbachev ; from a speech made to Congress in 1986 -- The Curse of Free Enterprise / Herbert Marcuse ; from One-Dimensional Man -- The Freedom -- The Vow I Take / William Lloyd Garrison -- The True Face of Slavery / Frederick Douglass -- He Shall Deliver the Needy / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The Lynching / Claude McKay -- Pride in Race / Booker T. Washington -- The Strife of Honorable Men / W. E. Burghardt Du Bois ; from The Souls of Black Folk -- Lynching in Arkansas / Walter F. White -- Back to Harlem / James Baldwin -- If We Must Die / Claude McKay -- An Appeal for Human Rights -- I Dream / Langston Hughes -- Letters from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King Jr ; from Why We Can't Wait -- The Culture of Discrimination / Michael Harrington ; from The Other America -- Soul Force / Martin Luther King Jr ; from a letter written in 1957 -- Not Just an American Problem, but a World Problem / Malcolm X ; from a speech given in 1965 -- Suppression of Women / Alice Walker ; from In Search of our Mother's Gardens -- Fredome / John Barbour -- The Four Freedoms / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- The Belief in Heresy / Carey McWilliams -- The House Afire / Harold L. Ickes -- The Freedom to Read / James T. Farrell -- The Competition of Ideas / Adlai E. Stevenson -- Sexual Freedom / Albert Ellis ; from Sex Without Guilt -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Respect / Malcolm X ; from Racism: The Cancer that is Destorying America -- Speak Out / Nadine Gordimer --

As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free / Walt Whitman -- The New Colossus / Emma Lazarus -- On a Steamship / Upton Sinclair -- In Memoriam / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- I Have a Dream / Martin Luther King Jr -- The Desire of Nations / Edwin Markham -- The Perfect City / Plato ; from The Republic -- Utopia / Sir Thomas More -- Cities, Old and New / H. G. Wells ; from In the Days of the Comet -- The Soul of Man Under Socialism / Oscar Wilde -- Caesar and Cleopatra / George Bernard Shaw -- Incentives / Charles Fourier -- A Festival in Utopia / William Morris ; from News from Nowhere -- The Utopian City / H. G. Wells ; from A Modern Utopia -- The New Nationalism / Theodore Roosevelt -- Looking Backward / Edward Bellamy -- The Social Revolution and After / Karl Kautsky -- Liberty in Utopia / H. G. Wells ; from A Modern Utopia -- The Understanding of Nature / Jean Leon Jaurés -- The Future of Art / Emile Vandervelde ; from Collectivism and Industrial Evolution -- Art After the Revolution / Emile Pataud ; from Syndicalism and the Co-Operative Commonwealth -- Punishment in Utopia / H. G. Wells ; from A Modern Utopia -- The Triumph of Love / Émile Zola ; from Labor -- The City of the Sun / Tomasso Campanella -- A Preface to Politics / Walter Lippmann -- Love in Utopia / William Morris ; from News from Nowhere -- The Free Woman / Walt Whitman -- Thus Spake Zarathustra / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Women in Freedom / Edward Carpenter -- The Feminine Urge to Freedom / Margaret Sanger -- Catastrophe and Debasement / Lewis Mumford -- A Boot on a Face / George Orwell ; from 1984 -- The Newly Won Freedom / Erich Fromm ; from The Sane Society -- The Challenge to Democracy / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Adapt or Perish / H. G. Wells -- The Triumph / Norman Corwin ; from On a Note of Triumph -- The Humane Illusion / Thomas Mann -- The People, Yes / Carl Sandburg -- To Endure and to Prevail / William Faulkner -- Where Hope Remains Undimmed / Bertrand Russell -- Extremism / Robert F. Kennedy ; from The Pursuit of Justice -- The Call of History / Vaclav Havel ; from Living in Truth -- Civil Disobedience / Henry David Thoreau --