Source: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch.14
“I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.”
Diary entry (21 February 1944).
The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)
On being Black and gay in the United States in “'We're All Struggling': Writer Saeed Jones Reflects On Identity And Acceptance” https://www.npr.org/2019/11/06/776747102/we-re-all-struggling-writer-saeed-jones-reflects-on-identity-and-acceptance in NPR (2019 Nov 6)
“Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.”
Source: Being Peace
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter IV, The Second Image, p. 98
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.1 The Historical Roots of Christianity the Hebrew Prophets, p. 12-13
Context: There is no question on which side the sympathy of the prophets was enlisted. Their protest against injustice and oppression, to the neglect of all other social evils, is almost monotonous.
“I protest that no one admires Cicero more than I do. He enriches all that he touches.”
Je proteste que personne n'admire Cicéron plus que je fais: il embellit tout ce qu’il touche.
Lettre sur les Occupations de l'Académie Française, sect. 4, cited from Œuvres de Fénelon (Paris: Lefèvre, 1835) vol. 3, p. 227; translation from Paul Bertie Bull Preaching and Sermon Construction (New York: Macmillan, 1922) p. 256. (1714)
Cf. Dr. Johnson's epitaph for Oliver Goldsmith: "…qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit, nullum quod tetigit non ornavit," ("…who left no species of writing untouched by his pen, and touched none that he did not adorn").
What's Going On.
Song lyrics, What's Going On (1971)
Variant: Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying.
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying.
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today.
