John Berger Quotes
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
Berger, John. Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance. Verso, 2007.
He was killed In the Spanish Civil War.
The city he represented had, under his leadership, declared itself a nuclear-free zone, protested apartheid in front of the South African embassy in Washington, fought for rent-control during a period of soaring rents, and became known as "the Berkeley of the East":
He was criticizing the other major Black leader of the time, Booker T. Washington. See {625803} for the kind of position that angered Du Bois.
He was warning that the corporations and monopolies were taking advantage of the poor who, if there is not some balance of redress and justice will resort to violence such as the man who just short him. He gave the speech still bleeding with the bullet lodged in his body. He refused to go to a hospital or get medical care until he had finished his speech. See {633076}.
John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is often used as a university text. He lived in France for over fifty years.
