More from Eugene McCarthy

  1. I have left Act I, for involution And Act II. There, mired in complexity I cannot write Act III.
  2. As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognitio…
  3. 'Broken things are powerful.' Things about to break are stronger still. The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.
  4. Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's importa…
  5. The glove has been thrown to the ground, The last choice of weapons made. A book for one thought. A poem for one line. A line for one word.
  6. In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelavent or get involved and get corrupted.
  7. Now it is certain. There is no magic stone. No secret to be found. One must go With the mind's winnowed learning.
  8. I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

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