October 15, 2003
Quote Of The Moment #0026
So then my trunk arrived. They found it. They opened it up and there was nothing in it. Everything was gone. The notes to Fanshen were all gone. I asked, "Do you always break into things and take whatever you find or whatever you want?"
They said, "We never break into anything. We have keys that fit everything."
"So, welcome to the land of the free and home of the brave," I was told.
From octogenarian William Hinton's highly entertaining oral account of the troubles he encountered in trying to publish, during the McCarthy era, his history of agrarian reform in a Chinese Village. He concludes the tale thus:
The American Constitution, the Bill of Rights, is a very precious thing, but you have to fight for it in every generation. You have to keep it alive or they’ll take it away from you.
Posted by Eddie Tews at October 15, 2003 11:42 AM
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