Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
"The Question of Peace" (July–August 1915) http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/jul/x02.htm; Collected Works, Vol. 21, p. 293. <br class="br">1910s
1990s, Our March to Freedom is Irreversible (1990)
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
"The Question of Peace" (July–August 1915) http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/jul/x02.htm; Collected Works, Vol. 21, p. 293. <br class="br">1910s
Hendrik Verwoerd (1901–1966) Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966
On 26 May 1960 at a large political rally at Meyerton, Transvaal, as quoted by David Harrison in The White Tribe of Africa https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LgwWMUbyNVUC, University of California Press, 1983, p. 165.
Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) sixth Prime Minister of India
Broadcast to the Nation, 12 November 1984
Extracts from Speeches
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Happiness
Angela Davis (1944) American political activist, scholar, and author
If They Come in The Morning (1971)
Park Geun-hye (1952) eleventh President of South Korea
Excerpts from inaugural address (February 25, 2013)
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Victory speech (1994)
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Inaugural celebration address (1994)
Context: We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace.
We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity — a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.
Henry George (1839–1897) American economist
Source: Social Problems (1883), Ch. 21 : Conclusion
Context: I ask no one who may read this book to accept my views. I ask him to think for himself.
Whoever, laying aside prejudice and self-interest, will honestly and carefully make up his own mind as to the causes and the cure of the social evils that are so apparent, does, in that, the most important thing in his power toward their removal. This primary obligation devolves upon us individually, as citizens and as men. Whatever else we may be able to do, this must come first. For "if the blind lead the blind, they both shall fall into the ditch."
Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow. Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.