Bell Sounds From the Public Square

In "The Bell Sounds From the Public Square," Li Xianzhi selects three declarations and 53 speeches displaying ways that the human spirit manifests at critical moments of history and political development. The declarations included are well-known - the American "Declaration of Independence", the "French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen" and the UN "Universal Declaration of Human Rights." These essential Enlightenment-inspired documents espoused the universal values that laid a foundation for modern humanistic literature. The speeches are sourced from across the globe, selected from a cache of public expression provided by 2,500 years of human history - from Socrates to Martin Luther King Jr., and Lu Xun to Abraham Lincoln.