Eric Russell

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    ...I discovered that I could take a risk and survive. I could march in Philadelphia. I could go out in the street and be gay even in a dress or a skirt without getting shot. Each victory gave me courage for the next one.
    Martha Shelley, U.S. author and social activist. As quoted in Making History, part 3, by Eric Marcus (1992)

    Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)