“America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Speech at Des Moines (1 February 1916)
1910s
“The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.”
— Radclyffe Hall, book The Well of Loneliness
Source: The Well of Loneliness
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