Americans Who Tell the Truth
A collection of portraits & quotes.
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abby moser
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I was very pleased to see Terry Tempest Williams among the beautiful drawings of Americans Who Tell The Truth. The portrait captured the caring, intense looks that she portrays as she gives a lecture. I do think that she looks younger in person than in your portrait. She definately comes across as young in spirit. Too bad that the intense voice that she "reads her works" with could not accompany the portrait.
26 January 2005 - North Logan, utah
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Sheila McMahon
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Wow. This is great. I am so happy to see Derrick Jensen and Howard Zinn among the Americans that you honor here. People like them remind me what it is to be an American, and give us hope that moving to Canada right away really isn't the only option;) . I love your artwork, too. I will be forwarding this web address to all of my loved ones.
23 January 2005 - Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
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Katie Mae
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I am so lucky to have stumbled across this website! What a wonderful project. Many of my favorite American heroes are included in this collection, including Paul Farmer (whose inclusion really pleasantly surprised me!) The only person I truly admire who isn't included is Margaret Sanger. But on the whole, this collection is much more representative, including gender and race, than most other forms of historical education. Thank you so much for doing this. I look forward to checking back into this website in the future.
21 January 2005 - Boston, Massachusetts
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Diogenes
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I've heard that the oldest extant fragment of the New Testiment involves Pontius Pilates question to Jesus; "What is truth?"
Having explored this site and the portraits I am struck by just how much "truth" is left out. The "truth" proclaimed is a extremely edited one, and one that seems to provide, nothing more than a text of the artist's not inconsiderable bias.
Selective quotation, and the editor's eye can very easily lead the unwary reader astray.
14 January 2005 - Detroit, MI
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Kim
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This is a wonderfully thoughtful undertaking not to mention,
a timeless theme which remains extremely relevent today. Some
of the Americans I have always admired are already included
in this collection: Thoreau, Cheif Joseph and Frederick Douglass.
If you are open to suggestions, I would love to see more Native
Indian leaders such as Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. Also, while
it may not seem like an obvious or fitting choice on the surface,
Bob Dylan is a true American folk hero--from early in his career
writing songs about social injustices including Hattie Carrol,
Ballad of Emitt Till, Masters of War--I could go on and on.
Through his songwriting he has had an effect on the social concious
of American culture by always speaking on the side of TRUTH.
10 November 2004 - Portsmouth, RI
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Stephen Downes
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Implicit in speaking the truth and reflected in the life stories of these people is the courage it takes to stand in the face of what is sometimes violent opposition. But even though such speakers may have faced oppression and even the assassin's bullet, their stature shows that a simple truth, spoken softly or loudly, long outlasts its speaker and, in time, serves as a beacon of hope for us all.
7 November 2004 - Moncton, new Brunswick, Canada
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Brian Smith
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This is an amazing project, and something that America needs in these days, when weak rhetoric and demogoguery dominates with relatively few exceptions. I will order several sets of cards for this Christmas, and I hope that the exhibit makes its way to Vermont. I also look forward to prints of these great portraits being available for purchase.
17 October 2004 - Richmond, Vermont
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Stacy Randell
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For those of us who work for peace and social justice on a daily basis, your work is a wonderful reminder of those who have come before us, those among us now, and those who will follow to continue to speak the truth. The military-industrial complex and its corporate and media cronies seem insurmountable at times. Thanks for reminding me that my work is not in vain. I wish a study of the portraits was part of every public school curriculum nationwide.
24 September 2004 - Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Kyle Kinney
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What a great way to show my students the true essance of the American spirit...or what it should be.
16 September 2004 - Boscobel, WI
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bill larock
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No where in your exhibit does it mention that Walt Whitmann, James Baldwin or others were also gay americans and that that too was part of their personal and political struggles. Shockingly homophobic.
18 August 2004 - St, Louis, MO.
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