“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.