After having always suffered everything,
taken it all in silence for months and years,
it is a matter of finally having the guts to stand up.
To take one's turn to speak.
To feel like men, for a few days.
Simone Weil's account of the Popular Front in 1936.
L. Bodin and J. Touchard,
Front Populaire,
112,
quoted in Zolberg,
"Moments of Madness," 183.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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