Prominent Voices For Freedom
October 15th, 2006
The following are selected by the Campaign Director
as “must reads,” and not chosen because of celebrity.
Janet Thomas Author, activist, teacher
Kali Wendorf Mother, activist, magazine publisher/editor
Velcrow Ripper Documentary Filmmaker
Arundhati Roy Author
Jane Goodall Author, Activist, Primatologist
Catherine Ingram Author, Novelist, Retreat leader
Aung Din (Former Political Prisoner) Policy Director, U.S. Campaign for Burma
Derrick Jensen Author/Activist
Dalai Lama Spiritual / Political Leader of Tibet
Dan Bruiger, Author
Chantal Kreviazuk Artist/Songwriter
Marcia Jacobs Psychotherapist/Former Witness Support Officer – War Crimes Tribunal
Lorinda Earl Activist, Social Commentator
Ron Welling Pastor
Lisa S. Price Feminist, Author
Jane Woodland Mother/Activist
Aung San Suu Kyi ~
“The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.”
“Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights.”
“There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance and fear.”
“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.”
