Unsere Generation wird eines Tages nicht nur
die bösen Taten der schlechten Menschen zu bereuen haben,
sondern auch das furchtbare
Schweigen der Guten.
Martin Luther King
In 1987 and 1988, Diana Russell journeyed from America to the land of her birth to learn about the special role of women in the ongoing struggle against apartheid in South Africa. The fruit of her research is this extraordinary book: the firsthand accounts, in their own words, of twenty-four women activists.