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| Photo by me of young girl's drawing in Rwanda |
"In this cruel, dynamic, explosive world, on the brink of a dozen destructions, what is the place and role of the writer? We writers have no rockets to blast off, we do not even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle, we are indeed altogether despised by those who respect only material power... writers and artists can do something more [than maintain the lie with violence]: they can vanquish the lie... We must not seek excuses on the grounds that we lack weapons...we must go out into battle...One word of truth outweighs the whole world. And on such a fantastic breach of the law of conservation of mass and energy are based my own activities and my appeal to the writers of the world."
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Word of Truth, 1970 Nobel Prize speech, quoted in Between Two Worlds, by John Stott.
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