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| Preface | |
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| What Is Dissent? | |
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| Pre-Revolutionary Roots, 1607-1760 | |
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| Introduction: The Long Roots of Modern Dissent | |
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| The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, 1644 | |
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| The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 | |
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| Petition for the Release of Alice Tilly, 1649 | |
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| Mary Dyer's First Letter Written From Prison, 1659 | |
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| Declaration in the Name of the People, July 30, 1676 | |
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| Quaker Antislavery Petition | |
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| A Minute Against Slavery, 1688 | |
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| Letter from an Anonymous Slave | |
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| Releese Us Out of This Cruell Bondegg, 1723 | |
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| Native American Voices (1609-1752) | |
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| Powhatan, Speech to John Smith, 1609 | |
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| Garangula, Speech to Governor La Barre of New France, 1684 | |
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| Negotiations for the Casco Bay Treaty, 1727 | |
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| Mashpee, Petition to the Massachusetts General Court, 1752 | |
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| The New York Weekly Journal, 1733 | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Runaway Women | |
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| Advertisements from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1742-1748 | |
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| Revolution and the Birth of a Nation, 1760-1820 | |
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| Introduction: The Republic Takes Shape | |
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| "Considerations on Keeping Negroes, Part Second," 1762 | |
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| Speech to the Governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, December 4, 1771 | |
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| The Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772 | |
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| Revolutionary Women | |
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| Hannah Griffiths, Poem, 1768 | |
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| Ladies of Edenton, North Carolina, Agreement, 1774-1775 | |
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| Common Sense, 1776 | |
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| Letters, 1776 | |
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| A Loyalist Critique of the Declaration of Independence, 1776 | |
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| Petition for Gradual Emancipation, 1777 | |
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| United Indian Nations | |
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| Protest to the United States Congress, 1786 | |
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| Statement of Grievances, 1786 | |
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| Objections to This Constitution of Government, 1787 | |
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| "On the Equality of the Sexes," 1790 | |
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| Shawnee, Miami, Ottawa, and Seneca Proposal | |
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| Proposal to Maintain Indian Lands, 1793 | |
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| Protest Against the Alien and Sedition Acts | |
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| The Virginia Resolutions, 1798 | |
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| Tecumseh (1768-1813) | |
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| Letter to Governor William Henry Harrison, 1810 | |
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| Speech to the Southern Tribes, 1811 | |
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| Congressmen Protest the War of 1812 | |
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| Federalist Protest, 1812 | |
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| Free Blacks of Philadelphia | |
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| Protest Against Colonization Policy, 1817 | |
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| Questioning the Nation, 1820-1860 | |
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| Introduction: The Reforming Impulse | |
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| Speech Protesting the Indian Removal Bill, April 9, 1830 | |
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| Letter Protesting the Treaty of New Echota, 1836 | |
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| Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, 1830 | |
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| The Liberator, Vol. I, No. I, January 1, 1831 | |
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| "An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man," 1833 | |
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| Laborers of Boston | |
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| Ten-Hour Circular, 1835 | |
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| Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, 1836 | |
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| "The Original Equality of Woman," 1837 | |
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| "Self-Reliance," 1841 | |
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| Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Part 3, 1844 | |
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| Lowell Female Industrial Reform and Mutual Aid Society, 1847 | |
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| Speech at Seneca Falls, July 19, 1848 | |
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| Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 | |
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| Ain't I A Woman?, 1851 | |
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| What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?, July 5, 1852 | |
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| "On Resistance to Civil Government," 1849 | |
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| Statement on Marriage, 1855 | |
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| The Know-Nothings | |
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| American Party Platform, Philadelphia, February 21, 1856 | |
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| Address to the Virginia Court at Charles Town, Virginia, November 2, 1859 | |
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| Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860-1877 | |
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| Introduction: A Divided Nation | |
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| Response to Lincoln's Address to Congress, July 10, 1861 | |
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| Knoxville Whig Antisecession Editorial, May 25, 1861 | |
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| The Arkansas Peace Society | |
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| Arkansas Peace Society Documents, 1861 | |
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| Message to the Legislature, March 10, 1864 | |
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| The Record of a Quaker Conscience, 1863 | |
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| African American Soldiers of the Union Army | |
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| Correspondence Protesting Unequal Pay, 1863-1864 | |
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| What the Black Man Wants, April 1865 | |
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| Petition to the United States Congress, November 24, 1865 | |
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| American Equal Rights Association | |
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| National Convention Resolutions, New York, May 1867 | |
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| From an Account of the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, July 3, 1873 | |
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| Is It a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote?, 1873 | |
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| Industry and Reform, 1877-1912 | |
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| Introduction: Progress and Discontent | |
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| Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor, January 3, 1878 | |
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| "Eight Hours," | |
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| Appeal to the Hayes Administration, 1879 | |
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| Speech to the WCTU, 1890 | |
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| The People's Party | |
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| The Omaha Platform, July 1892 | |
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| The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements, 1892 | |
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| Speech to the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1893 | |
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| Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are, 1895 | |
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| "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others," 1903 | |
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| Address to the Niagara Conference, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 1906 | |
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| Lynch Law in Georgia, June 20, 1899 | |
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| "Tortured and Burned Alive," 1899 | |
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| Address at the University of Chicago Denouncing U.S. | |
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| Imperialism, January 4, 1899 | |
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| "The March of the Mill Children," 1903 | |
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| "The Hetch Hetchy Valley," January 1908 | |
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| "Marriage and Love," 1911 | |
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| Christianizing the Social Order, 1912 | |
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| The Socialist Party | |
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| Socialist Party Platform, May 12, 1912 | |
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| Conflict and Depression, 1912-1945 | |
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| Introduction: Becoming a World Power | |
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| "We Will Sing One Song," 1913 | |
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| "The Preacher and the Slave Girl," 1913 | |
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| Defense of Free Speech, October 6, 1917 | |
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| Antiwar Speech, Canton, Ohio, June 1918 | |
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| "War Is the Health of the State," 1918 | |
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| "On Socialism," 1919 | |
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| Speech to the Universal Negro Improvement Association, Philadelphia, 1919 | |
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| "The Goal," 1920 | |
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| "Last Words," 1926 | |
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| "Mencken's Creed" | |
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| National Radio Address, November 1934 | |
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| National Radio Address, June 1936 | |
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| Speech in the U.S. Senate, February 5, 1934 | |
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| "The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd," 1939 | |
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| "Jesus Christ," 1940 | |
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| J. Saunders Redding, "A Negro Looks at This War," 1942 | |
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| Charles F. Wilson, Letter to President Roosevelt, 1944 | |
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| Why I Refused to Register in the October 1940 Draft and a Little of What It Led To | |
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| Reflections on Executive Order 9066 | |
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| Resistance | |
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| Statement upon Sentencing, 1942 | |
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| Letters from Jail to His Sister Yuka Yasui, 1942'1943 | |
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| The Affluent Society, 1945-1966 | |
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| Introduction: The Crack in the Picture Window | |
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| Lawson's Statement That Was Excluded from the Public Record, 1947 | |
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| Declaration of Conscience, 1950 | |
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| Testimony Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, June 12, 1956 | |
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| Speech at the Gay Spirit Visions Conference, Highlands, North Carolina, November 1990 | |
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| "America," 1956 | |
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| Songs of the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| "I Ain't Scared of Your Jail," 1963 | |
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| "If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus," 1960 | |
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| Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 | |
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| Testimony Before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic | |
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| National Convention, 1964 | |
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| The Black Revolution, 1964 | |
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| Berkeley Speech, October 1966 | |
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| The Black Panther Party | |
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| Black Panther Party Platform, 1966 | |
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| Students for a Democratic Society | |
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| The Port Huron Statement, 1962 | |
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| "I Ain't Marching Anymore," 1965 | |
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| "Little Boxes," 1962 | |
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| "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," 1965 | |
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| Mobilization: Vietnam and the Counterculture, 1964-1975 | |
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| Introduction: The Movement | |
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| Speech at the University of California at Berkeley, December 2, 1964 | |
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| Speech Denouncing the War in Vietnam, Washington, DC, November 27, 1965 | |
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| The Weather Underground | |
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| You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows, 1969 | |
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| Statement to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971 | |
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| Using LSD to Imprint the Tibetan-Buddhist Experience, 1964 | |
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| Introduction, Steal This Book, 1970 | |
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| Protest Music II | |
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| "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy," 1967 | |
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| "I Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die | |
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| Rag," 1965 | |
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| Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Fortunate Son," 1969 | |
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| Redstockings | |
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| The Redstockings Manifesto, 1969 | |
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| S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) | |
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| S.C.U.M. Manifesto, 1968 | |
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| Gloria Steinem (1934- ) | |
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| "'Women's Liberation' Aims to Free Men, Too," June 7, 1970 | |
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| Stonewall | |
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| Stonewall Documents, 1969 | |
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| The American Indian Movement | |
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| A Proclamation: To the Great White Father and All His People, 1969 | |
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| Contemporary Dissent, 1975-Present | |
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| Introduction: Crossing the Threshold into the New Millennium-Globalization vs. Jihad | |
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| "A Conservative's Lament: After Iran, We Need to Change | |
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| Our System and Grand Strategy," March 8, 1987 | |
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| ACT UP | |
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| Vito Russo, "Why We Fight," 1988 | |
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| Statement of Phill Wilson, Director of Public Policy, AIDS Project, Los Angeles, 1994 | |
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| Statement of Letitia Gomez, Executive Director, Latino/a Lesbian and Gay Organization, 1994 | |
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| The Michigan Militia | |
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| In Defense of Liberty II, 1995 | |
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| The Unabomber Manifesto, 1996 | |
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| Interview with Theodore Kaczynski, June 1999 | |
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| It's Time to End Corporate Welfare As We Know It, 1996 | |
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| "self evident," 2001 | |
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| Protest Music III | |
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| "New World Water," 1999 | |
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| Immortal Technique, "The 4th Branch," 2003 | |
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| "Rich Man's War," 2004 | |
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| Amnesty International | |
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| Amnesty International's Concerns Regarding Post-September 11 | |
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| Detentions in the U.S.A., March 14, 2002 | |
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| Earth Liberation Front | |
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| Written Testimony Supplied to the U.S. House of Representatives for the February 12, 2002,Hearing on "Ecoterrorism" | |
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| Not in Our Name | |
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| Statement of Conscience, 2003 | |
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| Veterans Against the Iraq War | |
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| Call to Conscience from Veterans to Active Duty Troops and Reservists, 2003 | |
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| Message to the Troops: Resist!, October 11, 2002 | |
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| The American Civil Liberties Union | |
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| Freedom Under Fire: Dissent in Post-9/11 America, May 2003 | |
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| MoveOn.org | |
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| The Many Faces of the Media, 2004 | |
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| "George Bush Never Looked Into Nick's Eyes," May 21, 2004 | |
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| A Lie of Historic Proportions, August 8, 2005 | |
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| Carly's Poem-A Nation Rocked to Sleep, August 15, 2005 | |
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| Author's Note | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Documents | |
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| Text Credits | |
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| Index | |