“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

Robert F. Kennedy
Capetown, June 6th 1966

1995: DOAN VIET HOAT, VIET NAM

Striving for a democratic government and economic and human rights reform for the Vietnamese people.

Doan Viet Hoat was imprisoned nineteen years for criticizing the Vietnamese government's economic and human rights policies and promoting democracy through his underground newsletter Dien Dan Tu Do (Freedom Forum). Exiled in 1998, Hoat has rejoined his family in the United States and is now a law professor at Catholic University.

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