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“[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.”

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Crowfoot, born in 1830, was an outstanding tribal chief in Canada. He was highly respected for his wisdom and leadership within the Indigenous community and played a significant role in the history of Canada in the late 19th century. more

“The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.”

Needs Looks Care Lying Found Justice Poor Security Court Misery Take Care Disaster Supreme Ignorant Appeals Indifference Treatment Republic Supreme Court Helplessness

Author:Charles Evans Hughes

“The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.”

Source: One Life at a Time, Please

“We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?”

Needs Book Home Challenges Race Modern Poet Murder Suicide Novelists Theme Destroying Milton Melville

Author:Edward Abbey

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