May 31, 1819
Walt Whitman
“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
June 1, 1924
William Sloane Coffin
“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.”
June 2, 1953
Cornel West
“You’ve got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.”
