I Speak for Myself

John Haynes Holmes (1879-1964), an American Unitarian minister, pacifist, and social reformer, was a co-founder of the NAACP and ACLU, renowned for his early advocacy of Gandhi and staunch opposition to war, as expressed in notable works like My Gandhi (1953), his autobiography I Speak for Myself (1959), poetry collection The Fortune Teller: Poems (1961), and the play If This Be Treason. He received the Gandhi Peace Award and was celebrated for his powerful sermons, hymns, and writings on religion, nonviolence, and social justice.