George Smith Patton

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    Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
    —Henry George (1839–1897)

    The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
    —Lillian Smith (1897–1966)

    A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 2 (1962)