If IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THESE THINQ I MIGHT HAVE LIVE OUT MAY LIFE TALKING AT STREET CORNERS TO SCORNING MEN. I MIGHT HAVE DIE. UNMARKED. UNKNOWN A FAILURE. THIS IS OUR CAREER AND OUR TRIUMPH. NEVER IN OUR FULL LIFE COULD WE HOPE TO DO SUCH WORK FOR TOLERANCE. FOR JUSTICE. FOR MAN’S UNDERSTANDING OF MAN AS NOW WE DO BY ACCIDENT. OUR WORDS-OUR LIVES-OUR PAINS NOTHING ! THE TAKING OF OUR LIVES-LIVES OF GOOD SHOEMAKER AND A POOR FISH PEDDLER-ALL ! THAT LAST MOMENT BELONGS TO US. THAT AGONY IS OUR TRIUMPH.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927).
A Kropotkin’s Lighthouse Postcard, c/o 5 Caledonian Road, London. N.1
Published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the execution of Bartolomeo Vanzetti & Nicola Sacco August 23rd 1927.
dessin de Ben Shahn