For the love of country they accepted death.
If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.
Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.
I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?
There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.
I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.
Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.
Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
That's what's great about Howard Zinn. Here's a guy who says, "Look, democracy doesn't come from above - it comes from below. " The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.