Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel [Paperback]

Alice Walker (Author)

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Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Open Media (April 6 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1583229175
ISBN-13: 978-1583229170
Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 0.6 x 17.7 cm
Shipping Weight: 73 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #311,979 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #34 in Books > History > Africa > Rwanda
- #63 in Books > History > Europe > Former Soviet Republics & Siberia

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“[Alice Walker] has transcended expectations in her response to September 11. Sent by Earth . . . is simple, practical, and beyond argument.”—The New Yorker, on Sent by Earth

“There is only one daughter, one father, one mother, one son, one aunt or uncle, one dog . . . or goat in the Universe, after all: the one right in front of you.”—From Overcoming Speechlessness

In 2006 Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on the Gaza Strip. Here is her testimony.

Bearing witness to the depravity and cruelty, she presents the stories of the individuals who crossed her path and shared their tales of suffering and courage. Part of what has happened to human beings over the last century, she believes, is that we have been rendered speechless by unusually barbaric behavior that devalues human life. We have no words to describe what we witness. Self-imposed silence has slowed our response to the plight of those who most need us, often women and children, but also men of conscience who resist evil but are outnumbered by those around them who have fallen victim to a belief in weapons, male or ethnic dominance, and greed.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Alice Walker is the author of more than thirty books including The Color Purple and Sent by Earth. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages. From her essays concerning the civil rights movement to cries for intervention on the Gaza Strip, Walker continually and eloquently calls attention to ignored injustices around the world.

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Alice Walker is the author of more than thirty books including The Color Purple and Sent by Earth. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages.

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Fabulous book! --very thin book but loaded with mind-blowing information. It has empowered me to be speak out on difficult issues that need our attention! This is worth so much to me personally and also gives me a vision for a better humanity as more of us take Alice's lead!

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