Since the beginning of time and across all continents, people have faced those who held power and raised their voices in protest, mobilizing others and inspiring future uprisings. Its echoes reverberate from ancient Greece, China and Egypt, through the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, the revolts of Arab slaves and rebellions against the Ottoman Empire of the Middle Ages. In the early modern world, the Dutch and English revolutions, which in turn led to the French, Haitian, American, Russian and Chinese revolutions, turned to these sources. At present, resistance is the order of the day, in the face of war and economic oppression, on the battlefields and in public spaces from Beijing to Baghdad, from Caracas to Los Angeles, from Madrid to New York. This anthology, of global scope, presents dissident voices of the whole history of humanity: speeches and pamphlets, poems and songs, plays and manifestos. Each era had its iconoclasts, the most important of which were based on the words and actions of its predecessors. The book of dissent will become an invaluable resource, reminding current citizens that these traditions will never perish. "The book of dissent reveals the many ways in which the constant struggle to create a better world has broken through the walls of apathy and conformity." Noam Chomsky "Reading this book is like meeting our angry best version. »Time Out Chicago