—Emerson, Ralph Waldo, “Self-Reliance”

—Ferré, Léo, “Préface”

—Falardeau, Pierre, "La Liberté n’est pas une marque de yaourt"

—Foucault, Michel, "Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia" (six lectures given at the Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1983)
—Fromm, Eric, The Sane Society

—Goldman, Emma, “Patriotism, a Menace to Liberty”
—Goytisolo, Juan, “Vamos a menos”

—Havel, Vaclav, Open Letters (e.g., “Dear Dr. Husak" and "The Power of the Powerless”)

—Hentoff, Nat, "Gag Order on Future Reporters:  Teaching Self-Censorship at Columbia"

—Ibsen, Henrik, An Enemy of the People (Editor's analysis)
—Ingersoll, Robert Green, "Liberty in Literature" et al
—Landry, Ulysse, “La verite en mange une claque”
—Lévesque, Raymond, A bon entendeur, salut!

—Levi, Primo, Se questo e un uomo
—King, Jr., Martin Luther, "The Purpose of Education"
—Lewis, Sinclair, "Letter to the Pulitzer Prize Committee" & “The American Fear of Literature” (Nobel Lecture-1930)

—Mamet, David, “First Principles" (Writing in Restaurants)

—Mencken, H.L., A Mencken Chrestomathy (“Bearers of the Torch,” etc..)

—Nader, Ralph, “The Concord Principles:  An Agenda for a New Initiatory Democracy”
—Neruda, Pablo, Confieso que he vivido and El Canto general

—Orwell, George, “Prevention of Literature,” "As I Please," "Why I Write," Inside the Whale, "Poetry and the Microphone," "Writers and Leviathan"
—Poe, Edgar Allan, "Criticism" (The Quacks of Helicon)
—Rushdie, Salman, "A legal shield against offense?"

—Saramago, José, “Hemos llegado al fin de una civilización” (El País, 11/19/00)
—Shalamov, Varlan, Kolyma Tales

—Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, “Live Not by Lies”
—Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, The Oak and the Calf and The Gulag Archipelago

—Thoreau, Henry David, “Civil Disobedience"
—Tremblay, Odile, "Guidounes culturelles"
—Xingjian, Gao, “The Case for Literature” (Nobel Lecture-1999)