Civic Engagement

Ai Weiwei

Art

conceptual art

b. 1957

"If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future."

🇺🇸Julia de Burgos

Social Activism

1914–1953

"To save something beautiful you must destroy it, so it does not fall, limp and degraded, from our miserable human hands."

🇺🇸Arun Manilal Gandhi

Politics

1934–2023

"I find that what is happening here is ten times worse than what I had experienced in South Africa. This is Apartheid."

🇺🇸John Lewis

Social Activism

1940–2020

"I have been in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now."

🇺🇸Jesse Jackson

Politics

civil rights movement

1941–2026

"When we divide, we cannot win. We must find common ground as the basis for survival and development and change, and growth."