Zocalo square in Mexico City, on October 2nd, 2010, indigenous girls play during a march marking the 42nd anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco square massacre. In 1968 dozens, maybe hundreds, of protesters were gunned down by the army in a brutal repression of the student movement. (Photo REUTERS/Eliana Aponte)
“I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of ‘LEAVES OF GRASS.’ I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed… It meets the demand I am always making of what seemed the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much handiwork, or too much lymph in the temperament, were making our western wits fat and mean…. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire… I rubbed my eyes a little, to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is a sober certainty. It has the best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walt Whitman
“What has miserable, inefficient Mexico… to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?” - Walt Whitman
“It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun that tract [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Source: american-decline)
