Yelena Bonner Quotes

United States, Activist
February 15, 1923 – June, 18, 2011.

Yelena Georgievna Bonner was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic blunt honesty and courage.

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.

Yelena Bonner
- People
- Work
I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights.

Yelena Bonner
- World
- War

It cost Andrei Dmitrievich 10 months of complete isolation and two hunger strikes over two months, which had a terrible effect on his health. The effects are still felt to this day.

Yelena Bonner
- Health
- Isolation
- Strikes