Letters From Freedom

Author : Adam Michnik
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0520922492

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Letters from Freedom by Adam Michnik Pdf

A hero to many, Polish writer Adam Michnik ranks among today's most fearless and persuasive public figures. His imprisonment by Poland's military regime in the 1980s did nothing to quench his outpouring of writings, many of which were published in English as Letters from Prison. Beginning where that volume ended, Letters from Freedom finds Michnik briefly in prison at the height of the "cold civil war" between authorities and citizens in Poland, then released. Through his continuing essays, articles, and interviews, the reader can follow all the momentous changes of the last decade in Poland and East-Central Europe. Some of the writings have appeared in English in various publications; most are translated here for the first time. Michnik is never detached. His belief that people can get what they want without hatred and violence has always translated into action, and his actions, particularly the activity of writing, have required his contemporaries to think seriously about what it is they want. His commitment to freedom is absolute, but neither wild-eyed nor humorless; with a characteristic combination of idealism and pragmatism, Michnik says, "In the end, politics is the art of foreseeing and implementing the possible." Michnik's blend of conviction and political acumen is perhaps most vividly revealed in the interviews transcribed in the book, whether he is the subject of the interview or is conducting a conversation with Czeslaw Milosz, Vacláv Havel, or Wojciech Jaruzelski. These face-to-face exchanges tell more about the forces at work in contemporary Eastern Europe than could any textbook. Sharing Michnik's intellectual journey through a tumultuous era, we touch on all the subjects important to him in this wide-ranging collection and find they have importance for everyone who values conscience and responsibility. In the words of Jonathan Schell, "Michnik is one of those who bring honor to the last two decades of the twentieth century."

Author : Adam Michnik
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520217607

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Letters from Freedom by Adam Michnik Pdf

Adam Michnik's imprisonment by Poland's military regime in the 1980s did nothing to stop his outpouring of writings. This volume of his letters finds Michnik briefly in prison, then released. Through his writing the reader can follow the changes of the last decade in Poland

Author : Veronica Chapman
Publisher : Fastprint Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1906169314

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Freedom Is More Than Just a Seven Letter Word by Veronica Chapman Pdf

Veronica: of the Chapman family (as commonly called), herein after referred to as Veronica: Chapman. The reason for this non-conventional way of expressing ones' name will become clear after reading just a few pages of the book: FREEDOM... Is More Than Just A Seven-Letter Word. The message is exactly what it says; it's all about freedom. Veronica: Chapman thinks it will surprise you how much you actually do not know about that subject. And how very little, in essence, you really need to know in order to attain it. We hope that, by the time you have read it all the way through, your path into the future will be obvious to you. You should discover that, even at the age of 7 years old, you had more power than any Government, Judiciary, Police Force and Military combined. But you did not realise it. And therefore, throughout your life, you have thrown it away. But take heart, it is still there. And you can learn how to use it. What is worth more than all the gold in the world is your appreciation that, having read this book, you have become empowered in the way you always should have been - had you been educated, rather than indoctrinated - during your childhood. The author is compelled to stretch certain points within the book in order to attempt to overcome the ingrained indoctrination to which we have all been subject throughout our lives. And the lives of our ancestors living or now deceased. "Updates to the book are freely available via info dot fmotl dot com website ... as and when new information becomes available" Veronica

Author : Manning Marable
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 023150750X

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Freedom on My Mind by Manning Marable Pdf

Freedom on My Mind reveals the richly diverse and complex experience of black people in America in their own words, from the Colonial era of Benjamin Banneker to the present world of Kweisi Mfume and Clarence Thomas. Personal correspondence, excerpts from slave narratives and autobiographies, leaflets, significant addresses and speeches, oral histories and interviews, political manifestos, and important statements of black institutions and organizations are brought together to form a volume that testifies to the boundless creative potential of black Americans in indefatigable pursuit of the dream of freedom. Arranged thematically, the selections illustrate the politics of resistance—as reflected through gender and sexuality, kinship and community, work and leisure, faith and spirituality. They also highlight the contributions of women to black identity, history, and consciousness, and offer excerpts from the work of some of the finest stylists in the African American canon. A general introduction as well as short introductions and bibliographies for each document further enhance the usefulness of the book for students and researchers.

Author : Douglas M. Rife,Gina Capaldi
Publisher : Innovative Kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1601690185

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Letters for Freedom: The Civil War by Douglas M. Rife,Gina Capaldi Pdf

Letters for Freedom!? provides historically accurate letters and interactive components that puts kids right in the thick of history. This high-interest series details key events in America's fight for Freedom. With lift flaps, gatefolds, sliding tabs, letters to open and pamphlets to unfold, this series offers a delightfully interactive way to learn history. The past comes alive with this jam-packed, interactive book that puts history in context as it describes every moment of the Civil War, from its causes to its consequences. With flaps, gatefolds, pull-tabs and removable letters that provide a first-person account of history as it's happening, there is no better way to learn everything there is to know about the war that almost divided, and eventually united, a nation.

Author : Ingrid Betancourt,Lorenzo Delloye-Betancourt,Melanie Delloye-Betancourt
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613120330

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Letters to My Mother by Ingrid Betancourt,Lorenzo Delloye-Betancourt,Melanie Delloye-Betancourt Pdf

Correspondence between politician Ingrid Betancourt and her family, written while she was being held hostage by a Columbian guerilla group. On December 1, 2007, during the arrest of several guerillas in Bogotá, the Colombian police confiscated a short video clip of political hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Accompanying the video was a twelve-page letter, dated October 24, 2007, written by Betancourt to her mother and family. Kidnapped on February 23, 2002, Betancourt has become an international symbol in the struggle for liberty and the fight against barbarity. Before being captured by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), she was a voice of hope for the Colombian people, leading a courageous fight against political corruption, violence, and illegal detentions. Presented in this small, poignant book is Betancourt’s letter to her mother printed in English, French, and Spanish. From the depths of the Colombian jungle, Betancourt’s words are an impassioned declaration of love to those dearest to her. In addition to this letter is a response to Betancourt written by her children who, since they were teenagers, have rallied public support for their mother’s release. With a preface by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, Letters to My Mother conveys a powerful message of love for family and country, and a heartrending plea for freedom.

Author : PATTI. ASHLEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948018454

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Letters to Freedom by PATTI. ASHLEY Pdf

Author : Jonathan Rieder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620400609

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Gospel of Freedom by Jonathan Rieder Pdf

"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here," declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good Friday, April 12, 1963: he was arrested. Alone in his cell, reading a newspaper, he found a statement from eight "moderate" clergymen who branded the protests extremist and "untimely." King drafted a furious rebuttal that emerged as the "Letter from Birmingham Jail"-a work that would take its place among the masterpieces of American moral argument alongside those of Thoreau and Lincoln. His insistence on the urgency of "Freedom Now" would inspire not just the marchers of Birmingham and Selma, but peaceful insurgents from Tiananmen to Tahrir Squares. Scholar Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into the Letter-illuminating both its timeless message and its crucial position in the history of civil rights. Rieder has interviewed King's surviving colleagues, and located rare audiotapes of King speaking in the mass meetings of 1963. Gospel of Freedom gives us a startling perspective on the Letter and the man who wrote it: an angry prophet who chastised American whites, found solace in the faith and resilience of the slaves, and knew that moral appeal without struggle never brings justice.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781429966863

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Witness to Freedom by Thomas Merton Pdf

Witness to Freedom is the fifth and final volume in the extraordinary correspondence of "one of the most original and challenging minds of the mid-twentieth century" (John Tracy Ellis, The New York Times Book Review). Dramatic and revealing, these letters deal with periods of serious crisis in Thomas Merton's life and vocation, giving readers, in his own words, the details and behind-the-scene facts of his personal struggles as well as his lifelong commitment to peace. This remarkable collection includes the unpublished "Cold War Letters" (as well as a complete list of the series), with Merton's original preface, which confirms their continuing relevance in the cause of peace. There are letters to ecologist Rachel Carson; artist and type designer Victor Hammer; Merton's friend and agent Naomi Burton Stone; his teacher Mark Van Doren; the Canadian philosopher Leslie Dewart; the French Arabic scholar Louis Massignon; and other famous as well as unknown correspondents. There is a courageous open letter to the American hierarchy on the issue of war. Witness to Freedom shows Merton as a living witness against war, perhaps one of the greatest of our century.

Author : Laird W. Bergad,Fe Iglesias García,María del Carmen Barcia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521480598

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The Cuban Slave Market, 1790-1880 by Laird W. Bergad,Fe Iglesias García,María del Carmen Barcia Pdf

Slavery was in many ways the fundamental institution in colonial Cuba, whose economy was based on the export of sugar from the slave-worked plantations. This volume presents a quantitative study of Cuban slavery from the late eighteenth century until 1880, the year slavery was formally abolished on the island. The core of this study is an examination of the yearly movement of slave prices and changes in the demographic characteristics of the slave market. Based on data from the notarial protocol records of the Archivo Nacional de Cuba, this book establishes precise price trends for slaves by age, sex, nationality, and occupation, and considers a number of other variables including the prices of coartados (slaves who had begun the process of buying their freedom) and the patterns of emancipation. Incorporating over 30,000 slave transactions from three separate locations in Cuba - Havana, Santiago, and Cienfuegos - this work comprises the largest extant database on any slave market in the Americas.

Author : Douglas M. Rife,Gina Capaldi
Publisher : Innovative Kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1584766123

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Letters for Freedom: The American Revolution by Douglas M. Rife,Gina Capaldi Pdf

An interactive history book! Follow the events of the Revolutionary War-from the Boston Tea Party through the Treaty of Paris. Every important battle is brought to life in this illustrated, fact-filled guide to the war that made a nation. With historically accurate letters written as if from real people, gatefolds that conjure the magnitude of the events, and interactive lift-the-flaps, this is a perfect first book for kids curious about American History!

Author : Dr Martin Luther King,Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2025-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0063425815

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Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Dr Martin Luther King,Martin Luther King, Jr. Pdf

Author : C. Graham Cooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : God (Christianity)
ISBN : 0989626253

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The Nature of Freedom by C. Graham Cooke Pdf

Author : Virginia Foster Durr
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820328219

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Freedom Writer by Virginia Foster Durr Pdf

Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Durr's birth--A unique civil rights diary that captures the daily struggles of the movement in the 1960s.

Author : Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : African Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001984868

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Letters from Mississippi by Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez Pdf

Personal impressions of conditions and events in the summer of 1964 told in selections from letters home by workers in the Civil Rights movement in that area.