“When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.” FeelsFirstsMayFallSpeakForceSocialChallengesBehindsRolesMovementCitizensPoliticianForgottenCongressCompromiseProtestLegislatorsSocial Movements Author:Howard Zinn
“Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.” SufferingFallSimpleGrowingAcceptanceRainEternityForgottenCorn Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“The Forgotten Man... works, he votes, generally he prays-but he always pays-yes, above all, he pays. He does not want an office; his name never gets into the newspaper except when he gets married or dies. He keeps production going on.... He does not frequent the grocery or talk politics at the tavern. Consequently, he is forgotten.... All the burdens fall on him, or on her, for it is time to remember that the Forgotten Man is not seldom a woman.” MenWantDoeRememberDiesFallNamesPayPrayingOfficeMarriedVoteForgottenProductionsBurdenNewspapersGroceriesTaverns Author:William Graham Sumner