RIP Yevgeny A. Yevtushenko, Russian poet who gave readings of his works in packed stadiums, and who denounced both anti-Semitism and Josef Stalin.
"I don't call it political poetry, I call it human rights poetry; the poetry which defends human conscience as the greatest spiritual value"
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"I don't call it political poetry, I call it human rights poetry; the poetry which defends human conscience as the greatest spiritual value"
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012