Lydia M. Child Quotes
We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.
Child, Lydia Maria. Letters from New-York. Charles S. Francis and Company, 1843.
Khrushchev did not originate this quotation. It was first stated by Lenin. See {620087}.
Tragically, the world paid a terrible price for the German upheaval before the better world finally emerged.
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This was three weeks after the coup that began the Dirty War that ended with tens of thousands of Argentines tortured and murdered.
1st Duke of Wellington
Vladimir Lenin. In 1957 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev used the first sentence of this quotation in a speech to the Supreme Soviet. See {240121}. He did not say that he was quoting Lenin, but many of the delegates probably knew this.
Lydia Maria Child, was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism.
