Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend has joined Amnesty International USA as part of its annual Write for Rights campaign.
Planned every year around Human Rights Day, December 10, the letters and messages generated by the campaign have had an enormous impact. Since 2001, more than 50 million actions have been taken, while over 100 people featured in our campaign have seen a positive outcome in their cases.
See all the 2023 cases: write.amnestyusa.org
JOHN LEGEND:
Writing is a transformative experience.
I write songs to express myself.
I write songs to give hope.
I write songs to heal the hurt.
I write because living free from violence is a human right.
I write because I refuse to accept this is ‘just the way it is.’
I write because leaders who let their police forces jail, beat and kill people who are simply, peacefully trying to express themselves need to know the world is watching.
I write because I take injustice personally. Because there are no throwaway lives.
I write because silence feeds violence.
I write because lyrics change music, but letters change lives.
Write a letter. Change a life.
Join me and Amnesty International to Write For Rights.
Go to write.amnestyusa.org
Award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend has joined Amnesty International USA as part of its annual Write for Rights campaign.
Planned every year around Human Rights Day, December 10, the letters and messages generated by the campaign have had an enormous impact. Since 2001, more than 50 million actions have been taken, while over 100 people featured in our campaign have seen a positive outcome in their cases.
See all the 2023 cases: write.amnestyusa.org
JOHN LEGEND:
Writing is a transformative experience.
I write songs to express myself.
I write songs to give hope.
I write songs to heal the hurt.
I write because living free from violence is a human right.
I write because I refuse to accept this is ‘just the way it is.’
I write because leaders who let their police forces jail, beat and kill people who are simply, peacefully trying to express themselves need to know the world is watching.
I write because I take injustice personally. Because there are no throwaway lives.
I write because silence feeds violence.
I write because lyrics change music, but letters change lives.
Write a letter. Change a life.
Join me and Amnesty International to Write For Rights.
Go to write.amnestyusa.org
