It is said that one image can communicate more things than a thousand of words. Here is a collection of powerful photos from the past that do just that – without saying anything, they can still speak directly to the soul. - See more at: http://tranquilmonkey.com/powerful-photos/#sthash.OjHbpbL0.dpuf
1. 17 year old Jan Rose Kasmir offers a flower to soldiers during the Pentagon anti-war protest in 1967.
Marc Riboud
2. A Brazilian protester stands before gunfire during protests against corruption and police brutality.
Huffington Post
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4. A North Korean waves at his South Korean brother after inter-Korean temporary family reunions.
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Wojtek Kalka
6. A journalist dashes across a bridge between to rescue a baby during Civil War. [1936]
Horace Abrahams
7. A Rwandan boy left scarred after being liberated from a death camp.
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9. Caroline Joan Peixoto, City Arts, photographed classical ballet students at rehearsal in Rwanda’s only classical ballet school. This school has given the Kigali community incredible hope as the first post-genocide ballet school.
Caroline Joan Peixoto, City Arts
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Evansville Courier & Press
11. “100,000 monks in prayer for a better world”
Luke Duggleby
12. 3 weeks old infant with albinism snuggles up to his cousin for a snooze.
Patricia Willocq
13. An Irish teenager yells at British soldiers during unrest in Northern Ireland.
14. Dr. Religa monitors his patient’s vitals after a 23 hour long heart transplant surgery. His assistant is sleeping in the corner. [1987]
J. Steinfeld, National Geographic 1987
15. The patient not only survived the surgery, but outlived his doctor.
16. Starving boy and missionary
Mike Wells
17. Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber
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18. Father and son (1949 vs 2009)
Vojage-Vojage
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20. Diego Frazão Torquato, 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence through music.
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21. Young man just found out his brother was killed.
Nhat V. Meyer
22. A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009.
abc.net.au
23. Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months.
Louie Favorite
24. Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Richard Drew /AP
25. Flower power
Bernie Boston
26. A woman sits amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunam, in Natori, northern Japan, in March 2011.
Asahi Shimbun, Toshiyuki Tsunenari /AP
27. Demonstration of condom usage at a public market in Jayapura, capital of Papua, 2009.
Adri Tambunan
28. During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, in 2011, a heroic villager saved numerous stray cats by carrying them with a basket balanced on his head.
Biswaranjan Rout / AP
29. An Indian youth dangles from a power line before diving into the floodwaters of an overflowing Ganges river in Allahabad in August.
Sanjay Kanojia / AFP / Getty Images
30. A Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a car bombing in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan.
Mohammad Sajjad / AP
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