1. Thomas Hobbes : Leviathan
The life of a man would be solitary, poor, nasty brutish and short.

2. Notes on Virginia: saw blacks as inferior Declaration of Independence 1776: All men are created equal Letter: We have the wolf by its ears, we can neither hold him , nor let him go

3. Alexander Hamilton
Federalist Papers Essay #9 : a firm Union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and liberty of the States as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection."

5. Percy Shelley, MASQUE OF ANARCHY
Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many — they are few"

6. MOLLY MAGUIRES

7. JOHN HENRY

8. KOREAN WAR AND CONTAINMENT: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana

9. VIETNAM

10. FEB 13, 2003 ANTIWAR PROTEST

11. THE RIGHT TO LIFE

12. Howard Zinn A People’s History of the United States 1980
A revisionist approach
Looks at history from the perspective of ordinary people trying to get a fair share, a piece of the action, the American Dream.
Lots of People are excluded from the Vox Populi.