Dissident

Václav Havel

Literature

1920–1979

"The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it."

🇮🇱Natan Sharansky

Politics

Movement to Free Soviet Jewry

b. 1948

"Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you. Indeed, it is the absence of democracy that represents the real threat to peace."

🇷🇺Yelena Bonner

Science

1923–2011

"It cost Andrei Dmitrievich 10 months of complete isolation and two hunger strikes over two months, which had a terrible effect on his health. The effects are still felt to this day."

🇫🇮Pentti Linkola

Science

1932–2020

"The most wretched of all current trends is of course the mass extinction of organisms, which has been escalating for decades and is still increasing in magnitude."

🇵🇱Lech Kaczyński

Politics

1949–2010

"The Polish society is not composed solely of entrepreneurial and energetic young people. I can't image pensioners who get ZL600 or ZL800 a month getting even less than that. That'd be immoral."

🇷🇺Edward Snowden

Entertainment

b. 1983

"And history also shows that seemingly ordinary people who are sufficiently resolute about justice can triumph over the most formidable adversaries."

Richard Wurmbrand

Religion

1909–2001

"The leaves of the tree of life will serve for the healing of the nations , which means that there will be in the life beyond people who need a cure for their souls."