Thursday, August 29, 2013

Quotation of the day for August 29, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for August 29, 2013



"[T]o be an American, I think, is to trust and be trusted by a certain kind of system, a Constitution which guarantees safety from illegal search and seizure, the right to assemble, excoriate the president, to do whatever, really, we want to do. And the fact that I am free means, of course, that the system is still working. But the un-Americans are sort of whittling away at our system. And, frankly, that's not the kind of America that I believe in and I think most people believe in. I think it's disgusting, and I think it's un-American."

- William Vollman, journalist and novelist, from an interview on NPR discussing the FBI's investigations of him.

[http://www.npr.org/2013/08/22/214392632/writer-william-vollmann-uncovers-his-fbi-file]

Submitted by: Jeff Copeland
Aug. 26, 2013

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