"Disparaged and abandoned by his fellow Quakers, Lay eventually helped win the debate over slavery. He wanted to provoke, to unsettle, even to confound — to make people think and act. His greatest power, indeed his genius, lay in his gift as an agitator. In every meeting he attended, public or private, he drew a … Continue reading You’ll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf
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Revolution For One
"You see the beauty of my proposal is / It needn't wait on general revolution / I bid you to the one-man revolution— / The only revolution that is coming."—Frost, Robert. "Build Soil." Change is a constant. Paradoxically, remaining the same, over time, requires change. Our bodies, like the Ship of Theseus, change and mutate, … Continue reading Revolution For One
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