George Smith Patton

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    How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

    If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 3 (1962)