Eric Houle Kick

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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)

    Phlébas, le Phénicien, pendant quinze jours noyé,
    Oubliait les cris des mouettes et la houle de Cornouaille.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    I had to kick their law into their teeth in order to save them.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)