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