We have been here before....

“Those who fought the American Revolution meant what they said about freedom. They fought so that this could be a country where every man [sic] would be free and equal…. This didn’t mean for one rich man to sweat the piss out of ten thousand poor men so that he can get richer. This didn’t mean the tyrants were free to get this country in such a fix that millions of people are ready to do anything—cheat, lie, or whack off their right arm—just to work for three squares and a flop. They have made the word freedom a blasphemy….

“It’s this way. Being mad is no good. Nothing we can do is any good. That’s the way it seems to me. All we can do is go around telling the truth. And as soon as enough of the don’t knows have learned this truth then there won’t be any use for fighting. The only thing for us to do is let them know.” 

from The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, written by Carson McCullers in 1940, when she was 23.

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