Americans Who Tell the Truth
A collection of portraits & quotes.
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Carol Denker
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A friend just sent me your link and I had to write you. What a marvelous, marvelous project. I'm a portrait artist also (www.aportraitbycarol) and I HIGHLY and JOYFULLY commend you: you have captured the essence of each truth-teller skilfully with paint and your own deep feelings of love (so often portrait painters leave their soul at home), and so wisely included their words. I will proceed to order your cards for my children and myself, hoping to spread the goodness.
Politcally, it is an amazing time now: incredibly scary and yet, hopeful. I'm traveling around the country on a book tour presently and am meeting so MANY people who are making their own "little corner of the world" into something reasonable and loving. You have added such hope here by drawing attention to truth-tellers.
Thank you.
Carol Denker
31 May 2010 - St. Louis, Philadelphia, Glenwood Springs, CO
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Miriam
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Your Journal is revolutionary! I hope everyone is reading it as well as viewing your portraits. I hope you will soon reflect and write about this oil spill..about our moral/spiritual/political obligation to paralyze corporate greed..versus sustainable retreat..or how we do both simultaneously.
22 May 2010 - Carbondale Colorado
Editors comments
Dear Miriam,
Thanks for writing & your kind words.
I have been slow to write about the oil spill because words fail me. The sadness of it. The arrogant greed. This was no accident but a predictable result of corporate power contolling the regulatory process for maximized profit. One sees the same disastrous forces at work in all the profit driven systems in this country --- food, defense, energy, media, manufacturing, health, mining, transportation, etc.
This oil spill is a symptom of system collapse. The fact that it cannot be stopped tells you everything you need to know about addiction and the careless arrogance of the people who profit from it.
But it is our responsibility to change this system.
They won't. They will tell us that it can be reformed to maintain the flow of oil and profit. That ecological suicide can be gradual and profitable.
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Douglas Renick
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I love what you have done. Thank you. I work every week with Frances Crowe who is amazing and I look forward to her card and poster. In time I hope you add Bill McKibben to your truth tellers and maybe Al Gore. I'm struck by the vehemence and hatred in some of the comments.
20 May 2010 - Florence, MA
Editors comments
Dear Douglass,
Thanks for writing.
I have painted Bill McKibben. Use the search feature to find his portrait.
I prefer to see that vehemence and hatred as a postive sign that this project is getting to more people than just the choir.
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Polly
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I came upon your website when I was researching one of my heroes,
Robert Jensen. I love your work and to see all these portraits
together, gives me a sense of hope for the world. Thank you.
14 May 2010 - St. Paul, Minnesota
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Laura Lubke
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There is such a large assortment of people, coming from all different facets of my studies and bringing them all together under one underlying truth. There are people I have learned about in English class, photo class, art class, history class, and even psychology class. I never was fully aware of how much someone I learned about in photo class could relate to someone I learned about in US history class. But, all these people have one thing in common they all have insisted that this country live up to the ideals expressed in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and this Americans Who Tell the Truth project has made me aware of that. A quote that I found very interesting was actually said by Helen Keller, “When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.” This summarizes what all of these Americans Who tell the Truth have aimed to teach us, to stand up for the ideals expressed in the Constitution and Declaration, and to see those ideals as something we have to fight for.
12 May 2010 - Baltimore, Maryland
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Rian
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I really enjoyed your pieces. I think you balanced older activist and newer ones well. You also covered a wide spectrum of races and beliefs. I especially think the quotes are informative. I think they help summarize what each individual is about. One person that could be added is the late Tupac Shakur. He is known for his sometimes raunchy rap lyrics but he was an avid activist for equality in the black community. He also was a published poet and I think he would be a great addition to your collection.
12 May 2010
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Helen
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Just today I saw some of your portraits at the Sewall-Belmont House in Washington DC and was incredibily moved by the words and faces that you have captured. I especially liked Jane Addams! Thank you for your work. I will follow your journey and work closely now and hope to see much more of it in the future. I vacation each year in Maine so perhaps I will come across you there. Again, Thanks!
2 May 2010 - Gaithersburg Maryland
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Dick Roberts
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What is the Publishing Organization
27 April 2010 - Pa
Editors comments
Dear Dick, not sure what you mean by this.... Could you be more specific.
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Rob |
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Karl Greenblatt
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I would love to see Pete Seeger,Steve Earle,Arlo Guthrie and Phil Ochs for starters
17 April 2010 - So Cal
Editors comments
Dear Karl,
I've painted Pete.
You know, if I painted all the other folksingers who have been truthtellers, that's all I would do.
They're all on my list of people deserving portraits.
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Rob |
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Boston Dan
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A marvelous project. Might I suggest two more? Peacemakers Daniel and Philip Berrigan.
9 April 2010 - Boston, MA
Editors comments
Dear Dan,
I will eventually include them.
Men of great courage & conviction.
Rob |
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