Ben Burdick

“There is no power but in conviction.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, Génie Du Christianisme, 1

“Americans need to learn from the Wilson era, that there is a connection between racist presidential leadership and like-minded public response.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“Illusions fall away one after another like the husks of a fruit, and that fruit is experience. It is bitter to the taste, but there is fortitude to be found in gall – forgive me my old-fashioned turns of phrase.”
― Gérard de Nerval, Selected Writings

“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here