“Life is so much easier today than it was a hundred years ago. People used to have to work on farms from sun-up to sun-down, and still their children would die, and there often wouldn't be enough to eat. I wouldn't have lasted three days under such conditions. I have no right to be alive.”

—  John S. Hall

July 22
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)

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Poet, author, singer, lawyer 1960

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