Wendell Berry Quotes
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
Berry, Wendell. Standing by Words. North Point Press, 1983, p. 74.
She campaigned alone traveling throughout the South by train. She argued for change regarding civil rights. No First Lady had ever campaigned alone before, including Eleanor Roosevelt.
She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
Wendell Erdman Berry is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berry was named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. On January 28, 2015, he became the first living writer to be inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.
