"The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God."

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The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and so disrespectful, by inattention, to people's movements-that we need some counterforce to avoid being crushed into submission.

— Howard Zinn