Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
Quoted in Le Monde (Paris, Sept. 11, 1970)
Quoted in Renee Weingarten's Writers and Revolution, ch. 15 (1974).
“Men may build barricades — and others may hurl themselves against those barricades — but what would happen at the barricades would yield no answers. The answers will only be wrought by our perseverance together. It is deceit to promise more as it would be cowardice to demand less.”
1960s, Memorial Day speech (1963)
Context: If it is empty to ask Negro or white for patience, it is not empty — it is merely honest — to ask perseverance. Men may build barricades — and others may hurl themselves against those barricades — but what would happen at the barricades would yield no answers. The answers will only be wrought by our perseverance together. It is deceit to promise more as it would be cowardice to demand less.
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Si responderint se impunitate proposita facturos, quod expediat, facinorosos se esse fateantur, si negent, omnia turpia per se ipsa fugienda esse concedant.
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Book III, section 39; translated by Walter Miller
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
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As quoted in Congressional Record https://web.archive.org/web/20160528155427/http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/18846, House, 44th Cong., 1st sess. (7 June 1876): p. 3,669 <br class="br">Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (1876)