Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
“I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.”
Source: Framley Parsonage (1861), Ch. 10
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Frances Hardinge (1973) British children's writer
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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes book In the Forests of the Night
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“The world cannot utterly ignore men who lay down their lives for any cause.”
Robert Hunter (author) (1874–1942) American sociologist, author, golf course architect
Source: Violence and the Labor Movement (1914), p. 90
Context: The world cannot utterly ignore men who lay down their lives for any cause. Men may write and agitate, they may scream never so shrilly about the wrongs of the world, but when they go forth to fight single-handed and to die for what they preach, they have at least earned the right to demand of society an inquiry.
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Cassandra (1860)
Context: The progressive world is necessarily divided into two classes — those who take the best of what there is and enjoy it — those who wish for something better and try to create it. Without these two classes the world would be badly off. They are the very conditions of progress, both the one and the other. Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
