THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: “Rise, O Days, from Your Fathomless Deeps” from Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman, 1865. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Ray Alv

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: “Rise, O Days, from Your Fathomless Deeps” from Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman, 1865. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Ray Alvareztorres

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: James Baldwin, statement during US House hearing, New York, March 18, 1968. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: James Baldwin, statement during US House hearing, New York, March 18, 1968. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Barack Obama, address on the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama, March 7, 2015. © 2023 Jenny Holzer,

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Barack Obama, address on the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama, March 7, 2015. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, DC Text: “Cinderella’s Stepsisters,” Barnard College commencement address, New York, May 13, 1979. From The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speec

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, DC Text: “Cinderella’s Stepsisters,” Barnard College commencement address, New York, May 13, 1979. From The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison, © 2019 by the author. Used with permission of the author’s estate. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, DC Text: Harvey Milk, © 1976 by the author. Used with permission of the Harvey Milk Foundation. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS),

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, DC Text: Harvey Milk, © 1976 by the author. Used with permission of the Harvey Milk Foundation. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, DC Text: Fannie Lou Hamer, address to the National Women’s Political Caucus, Washington, DC, July 10, 1971. Used with permission of Monica Land. © 2023 J

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, DC Text: Fannie Lou Hamer, address to the National Women’s Political Caucus, Washington, DC, July 10, 1971. Used with permission of Monica Land. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Dwight D. Eisenhower, address at New York Republican State Committee dinner, New York, May 7, 1953. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS)

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Dwight D. Eisenhower, address at New York Republican State Committee dinner, New York, May 7, 1953. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, DC Text: Democracy in America, vol. 1, by Alexis de Tocqueville, English translation by Henry Reeve, 1835. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Soc

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, DC Text: Democracy in America, vol. 1, by Alexis de Tocqueville, English translation by Henry Reeve, 1835. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, DC Text: “On the Pulse of Morning” by Maya Angelou, © 1993 by the author. Used with permission of Caged Bird Legacy. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, DC Text: “On the Pulse of Morning” by Maya Angelou, © 1993 by the author. Used with permission of Caged Bird Legacy. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, address at US naturalization ceremony, New-York Historical Society, New York, April 10, 2018. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Right

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, address at US naturalization ceremony, New-York Historical Society, New York, April 10, 2018. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Frederick Douglass, letter to William F. Gable, February 24, 1882. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Frederick Douglass, letter to William F. Gable, February 24, 1882. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Gloria Steinem, “Living the Revolution,” Vassar College commencement address, Poughkeepsie, New York, May 31, 1970. Used with permission of the author. © 20

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Gloria Steinem, “Living the Revolution,” Vassar College commencement address, Poughkeepsie, New York, May 31, 1970. Used with permission of the author. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Susan B. Anthony, remarks at her 86th birthday celebration, Washington, DC, February 15, 1906. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Susan B. Anthony, remarks at her 86th birthday celebration, Washington, DC, February 15, 1906. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Walden by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.© 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NYPhoto: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Walden by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.© 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NYPhoto: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil by W. E. B. DuBois, 1920. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil by W. E. B. DuBois, 1920. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Man the Reformer,” address to the Mechanics’ Apprentices’ Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member A

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Man the Reformer,” address to the Mechanics’ Apprentices’ Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Frances E. W. Harper, address to the 11th National Women’s Rights Convention, New York, May 10, 1866. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (AR

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: Frances E. W. Harper, address to the 11th National Women’s Rights Convention, New York, May 10, 1866. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: John F. Kennedy, remarks at the National Guard Armory, Washington, DC, November 29, 1962. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo

THE PEOPLE, 2023 Light projection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Text: John F. Kennedy, remarks at the National Guard Armory, Washington, DC, November 29, 1962. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak