Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.
Kapuściński, Ryszard. Shah of Shahs. Translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.
This was King’s first appearance on the nation’s most prestigious news show.
This quotation was documented by an FBI illegal wiretap of King and his associates. The illegal wiretap had been insisted upon by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover who was a racist and somewhat of a paranoid about communists. However, Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy personally approved the illegal wiretap.
In Russia anti-Jewish riots and massacres, called "pogroms," were tolerated by the Tsarist government:
Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author. He received many awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in book form attracted both controversy and admiration for blurring the conventions of reportage with the allegory and magical realism of literature. He was the Communist-era Polish Press Agency's only correspondent in Africa during decolonization, and also worked in South America and Asia. Between 1956 and 1981 he reported on 27 revolutions and coups, until he was fired because of his support for the pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native country. He was celebrated by other practitioners of the genre. The acclaimed Italian reportage-writer Tiziano Terzani, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda accorded him the title "Maestro".
