Ron Stafford

“From sympathizers viewing Sacco and Vanzetti as victims, it was only a short step to viewing them as martyrs. To their partisans they exemplified all that was admirable—innocence, virtue, and idealism—while the forces arrayed against them embodied all that was intrinsically evil: bigotry, hypocrisy, and reaction.”
― Nicola Sacco, The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti

“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”
― Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf

“who as a young girl worked to promote the use of birth control; to her mother, Elizabeth Bigelow, one of the first suffragettes, and her father Elijah Harden, who served three terms in the House of Representatives; to Ulysses, a state senator who helped settle thousands of freed slaves in Massachusetts; to Colonel Stanton Harden, a Civil War hero and a moving force among Boston abolitionists.”
― Barbara A. Shapiro, The Safe Room

“Supporters of the two men believed they were victims of a deeply ingrained prejudice against immigrants and radicals.”
― Nicola Sacco, The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti