Will Rogers Quotes
A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
Rogers, Will. Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to His President. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926.
This was one of the first calls for a slave strike in America.
This is one of the first literary works explicitly attacking Fascism at the start of WWII. The quotation is a line of the protagonist. The play opened in New York and shortly after President Roosevelt ordered a command performance at the National Theater in Washington. A Movie with Bette Davis and Paul Lukas was then made of the play. Many films and plays with anti-Fascist, anti-Nazi themes followed.
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma. He was a Cherokee citizen born in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory.