“Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.”
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
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Allegedly these were among General John Sedgwick's final words. He was serving as a Union commander in the American Civil War, and was hit by a sharpshooter's fire a few minutes after saying them, at the battle of Spotsylvania to his men who were ducking for cover, on May 9, 1864. The words have often been portrayed as if they were absolutely his last statement, with the sentence being presented as if he did not even finish it, and altered into the form: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." . Though it may be a slightly more striking version of events, it is unlikely to be true.
Civil War Home site: eye-witness account http://www.civilwarhome.com/sedgwickdeath.htm

Commencement Address at Middlebury College May, 2001 http://web.archive.org/web/20030906163501/http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/pubaff/general_info/addresses/Fred_Rogers_2001.htm

“Men do not know how to appreciate or measure luck except that of others. Their own never.”
History of the Greeks, Rizzoli 1959.
1950s - 1990s

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”