Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell

‘We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed’ Martin Luther King

In an era where the liberties we often take for granted are under threat, Letters To Change the World is a collection of inspiring letters offering reminders from history that standing up for and voicing our personal and political beliefs is not merely a crucial right but a duty if we want to change the world.

Edited by Travis Elborough, the collection includes George Orwell's warning on totalitarianism, Martin Luther King's 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail', Albert Camus on the reasons to fight a war, Bertrand Russell on peace, Emmeline Pankhurst rallying her suffragettes, Nelson Mandela's letter to his children from prison and Time's Up on the abuse of power.

• Author
• Travis Elborough, George Orwell, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Camus, Bertrand Russell, Emmeline Pankhurst, Nelson Mandela, Ernesto Che Guevara, William Wilberforce, Elizabeth Fry, Karl Marx, Richard Oastler, George W. Williams, Robert Loyd-Lindsay, Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, Wilfred Owen, Barbara Bodichon, Emily Hobhouse, Amelia Earhart, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Anaïs Nin, Antonio Gramsci, Jarrow J.W. Thompson, Niels Bohr, Lillian Hellman, A.A. Milne, Paul Robeson, Czeslaw Milosz, Tony Dyson, Doris Lessing, John Steinbeck, Zora Neale Hurston, Rachel Carson, Harvey Milk, Ron Ridenhour, Václav Havel, Alex Molnar, Alan Paton, Nikita Khrushchev, Deirdre Rhys-Thomas, Armistead Maupin, Joan Baez, W.E.B. Du Bois, Olusegun Obasanjo, Phyllis Rodriguez, Orlando Rodriguez, Tilda Swinton, Alice Walker, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Eric Garcetti, Patrick Millsaps, Stephen Fry, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tony Benn, Edward Snowden

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 272

• Publisher
• Ebury Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781785039478

• Genres
• politics, history

• Release date
• 2018