he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.
Lincoln SteffensMy father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
Lincoln Steffens