Contents:

Diane Ackerman

Ernest Albrecht

Kofi Annan

Maya Angelou

Paul Aronowitz

James Baldwin

Dudley Barlow/Alice Callaghan

Suzanne Britt

Judy Brady

Albert Camus

Bruce Catton

Po Chu-i

Sandra Cisneros

Judith Ortiz Cofer

K.C. Cole

Norman Cousins

Malcolm Cowley

Robertson Davies

Alan M. Dershowitz

Debra Dickerson

Joan Didion

Annie Dillard

Barbara Ehrenreich

Lars Eighner

Loren Eiseley

Bay Fang

Peter Farb & George Armelagos

Suzanne Fields

Nicols Fox

Ian Frazier

Adam Goodheart

Ellen Goodman

James Glanz

Stephen J. Gould

Donald Hall

Edward T. Hall

Garrett Hardin

Robert Hayden

Seamus Heaney

Nat Hentoff

Sue Hubbell

Langston Hughes

Barbara Huttmann

Susan Jacoby

Franz Kafka

Wendy Kaminer

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Lethem

William Lutz

Nancy Mairs

Richard Marius

Philip Meyer

Horace Miner

Jessica Mitford

N. Scott Momaday

Gloria Naylor

Kesaya E. Noda

Naomi Shihab Nye

George Orwell

Camille Paglia

Jo Goodwin Parker

Alexander Petrunkevitch

Plato

Richard Rodriguez

Scott Russell Sanders

May Sarton

David Sedaris

Gail Sheehy

Susan Sontag

Brent Staples

Shelby Steele

Gloria Steinem

Andrew Sullivan

Jonathan Swift

Amy Tan

Deborah Tannen

Calvin Trillin

Mark Twain

Judith Viorst

Alice Walker

E.B. White

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

Virginia Woolf

Malcolm X