Wednesday, June 23, 2004
 
Words and Acceptance

Over and over again, names, mottoes, watchwords have been turned inside out, and upside down, and hindside before, and sideways, by occurences out of the control of those who used the expression in their proper sense; and still, those who have sturdily held their ground, and insisted upon being heard, have in the end found that the period of misunderstanding and prejudice has been but the prelude to a wider inquiry and understanding. -Voltairine de Cleyre

We are drawn to ever deeper regions of solitude, from which we are unlikely to bring back news that will be greeted with applause.


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