May 1, 1837
“Mother” Jones
“My business is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
May 4, 1796
Horace Mann
“Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.”
May 6, 1942
Ariel Dorfman
“You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.”
