Ursula K. Le Guin

"We’ll need writers who can remember freedom - poets, visionaries - realists of a larger reality. Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. ... Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words."

Ursula K. Le Guin, Speech in Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, 19 Nov, 2014. The full speech in text on her site.

And read her blog: 91. The Inner Child and the Nude Politician

Found the video in: 2014 Kinda Sucked: A Look at Our Slow Descent Into Dystopia, Devon Maloney, Wired, 31 Dec 2014.