John Trudell (1946–2015) Native American rights activist, musician, poet
"We are Power" speech (1980)
Source: From Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 23
John Trudell (1946–2015) Native American rights activist, musician, poet
"We are Power" speech (1980)
“See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.”
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Union Sundown
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1993)
Context: Together, we join two distinguished South Africans, the late Chief Albert Lutuli and His Grace Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to whose seminal contributions to the peaceful struggle against the evil system of apartheid you paid well-deserved tribute by awarding them the Nobel Peace Prize. It will not be presumptuous of us if we also add, among our predecessors, the name of another outstanding Nobel Peace Prize winner, the late Rev Martin Luther King Jr. He, too, grappled with and died in the effort to make a contribution to the just solution of the same great issues of the day which we have had to face as South Africans. We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.
Jean Jullien (1983) french graphic designer, illustrator, video artist and photographer
Slate interview (2015)
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
Speech (2 December 1971) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1971/esp/f021271e.html
Derek Walcott (1930–2017) Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright
"A Far Cry from Africa" (1962)