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Voices In Time

1922 | Madras

Self-Control

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari on nonviolent resistance.More

Voices In Time

1895 | Chicago

Gilded Cage

Eugene V. Debs on “the most stupendous delusion.”More

Voices In Time

c. 1807 | Grasmere

Thinking Inside the Box

William Wordsworth escapes the weight of too much liberty.More

Voices In Time

1967 | Oakland, CA

Power in Numbers

Huey P. Newton seizes the necessary tools.More

Voices In Time

1668 | Nottinghamshire

Pleasure Dome Decree

Margaret Cavendish retires.More

Voices In Time

1651 | Paris

Power to Move

Thomas Hobbes on liberty and necessity.More

Voices In Time

1874 | Washington, DC

Payment Due

Richard Harvey Cain advocates for a living Constitution.More

Voices In Time

c. 344 BC | Athens

Barricades and Ramparts

Demosthenes recommends mistrust.More

Voices In Time

1894 | St. Louis

False Positive

Kate Chopin welcomes a monstrous joy.More

Voices In Time

1913 | New York City

Artful Dodging

Randolph Bourne hopes children won’t listen.More

Voices In Time

1896 | New York City

Departure Gate

To infinity and beyond.More

Voices In Time

1936 | Bombay

Predestination

B.R. Ambedkar on the failures of caste.More

Voices In Time

1879 | Washington, DC

New Deal

Chief Joseph asks for an even chance.More

Voices In Time

1877 | Camden, NJ

Sweet, Sane Nakedness

Walt Whitman, liberated.More

Voices In Time

1769 | Dorchester, MA

Dance Break

John Adams parties for freedom.More

Voices In Time

1913 | Cambridge

Room to Think

Genius requires money.More

Voices In Time

1891 | Dublin

Public Utility

Oscar Wilde defends unpopular art.More

Voices In Time

1783 | Boston

Emancipation Proclamation

Belinda demands her unalienable rights.More

Voices In Time

c. 1884 | Hartford, CT

Sweet-Smelling Lies

We are discreet sheep, says Mark Twain.More

Voices In Time

1649 | London

The King’s Speech

Charles I would prefer not to.More

Voices In Time

1837 | East Boylston, MA

Moral Beings

Angelina Grimké on the rights of women.More

Voices In Time

c. 830 | Luoyang

Too Late

Bai Juyi apologizes.More

Voices In Time

c. 1695 | Montreal

Company Observes Misery

Kandiaronk refuses silver.More

Voices In Time

1886 | London

Arbitrary Restraint

Charlotte Wilson revolts against property.More

Voices In Time

1774 | Boston

Deliverance

Phillis Wheatley is impatient of oppression.More

Voices In Time

1644 | London

Live in Sin

John Milton argues that the will cannot be licensed.More

Voices In Time

1886 | Russia

Everything Is Better in Siberia

Anton Chekhov pictures a free life.More

Voices In Time

c. 420 BC | Athens

Primary Source

Enslaved by legislation.More

Voices In Time

1789 | London

The Sense of an Ending

Thomas Paine praises the empire of America.More

Voices In Time

1930 | Washington, DC

Din and Tonic

Channing Pollock protests government overreach.More

Voices In Time

2022 | New York City

Andrey Kurkov Picks Up His Pen

On the freedom to write in Ukraine.More

Voices In Time

c. 108 | Nicopolis

Body Politic

Epictetus on wanting nothing.More

Voices In Time

1913 | Hartford, CT

Votes for Women

Emmeline Pankhurst issues an ultimatum.More

Voices In Time

c. 680 | Rabban Shapur

Force of Nature

Isaac of Nineveh on free will and the senses.More

Voices In Time

1842 | Marquesas Islands

Civilized Crimes

Herman Melville visits a place free of money.More

Voices In Time

c. 1860 | St. Petersburg

These Are Barbarous Times

Fyodor Dostoevsky on the nature of man.More

Voices In Time

1971 | Padua

We Refuse This Logic

The problem is not abortion.More

Voices In Time

1649 | Surrey

Common Ground

Gerrard Winstanley vs. landlords.More

Voices In Time

1919 | Washington, DC

Context Sensitive

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. limits speech in wartime.More

Voices In Time

1848 | Macon, GA

Escape Mechanism

William and Ellen Craft make a desperate leap for liberty.More

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