Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Feisty quote for the day

Eugene Debs, 23 May, 1908
(from "The Issue")
Do you know, my friends, it is so easy to agree with the ignorant majority. It is so easy to make the people applaud an empty platitude. It takes some courage to face that beast called the Majority, and tell him the truth to his teeth! Some men do so and accept the consequences of their acts as becomes men, and they live in history - every one of them. I have said so often, and I wish to repeat it on this occasion, that mankind have always crowned their oppressors, and they have as uniformity crucified their saviors . . .
Debs addressing a crowd

(Is it tragic that I fear for Barak Obama precisely because of his potential greatness?)

(quote via wood s lot, a little while back)

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