Issue
number 66 June
11, 2006
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Quorum of One is intended for adult readers
This issue:
Voices
of Innocence
Stirring
statements made by unjustly persecuted heroes of the past two millennia (and
then some)
Note: Many of these quotes appear here in their
unabridged versions for the first time ever.
"Some
things work, some things don't. Obviously I am disappointed, but that's the way
the system works."
"Our words, our lives, our pains: nothing!
The taking of our lives, lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler:
all! That last moment belongs to us. That agony is our triumph. So turns out
they were right: you can't fight City Hall."
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 1927
"J'Accuse... ! Mais bon." ("I
accuse! But hey.")
Emile Zola (on behalf of Alfred Drefyus), 1898
"'Shoot, if you must, this old
gray head,
But spare your country's flag,' she
said.
'Though if you Southern gents ask
sweetly
I might change my mind completely...
Aw shucks, rip 'er right in two --
It's really no big
whoop-dee-doo.'"
From the first draft of "Barbara
Frietchie" by John Greenleaf Whittier, 1864
"I only regret that I have but one life to
lose for my country. Oh well, I guess that's just the way the hardtack
crumbles."
Nathan Hale, 1776
"Hold the
cross high so I may see it through the flames! Unless, of course, you guys are
tuckered out from hauling all this wood and don't have the energy to hoist it
up right now. Whatever."
Joan of Arc, 1431
"My God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Oh wait
-- I know! This is just one of those 'mysterious ways' in which You work,
right? Right?"
Jesus of Nazareth, 33
"Crito, I owe a cock to
Asclepius. Will you remember to pay the debt? I -- oh Zeus! Woah -- hand me
that urn! Rrrrrrphh. Sorry man. Hey, you know what? About that Asclepius thing?
Fuck him."
Socrates, 399 BC
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2006 by David Jaggard
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