A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall – that is my strength, my only strength. – Antonio Gramsci
What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s. – L. Neil Smith
