

August 30, 1944
Molly Ivins
“So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.”
August 31, 1870
Maria Montesorri
“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”
September 3, 1921
Marguerite Higgins
“You can’t have a working democracy where people are starving. Hunger breeds desperation; desperation breeds violence; violence breeds a police state.”

