George Smith Patton

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    I hope there are some who will brave ridicule for the sake of common justice to half the people in the world.
    —Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827–1891)

    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)