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“One of the many upsetting aspects to being in your forties, is hearing people your own age grumbling about “young people” the way we were grumbled about ourselves.”
That’s how British comedian and activist Mark Steel begins his op-ed column on the current wave of British student protest and the dismissive attitude that many people his age take toward the youth of today. It’s a smart, funny piece, and worth a read.
For those of us who couldn’t make it to DC, the Powershift ’09 folks have put a bunch of video from the conference up online. Check it out.
Today is Dr. Seuss’s 105th. I went looking this morning for a quote of his on activism — not something from one of his books — but apparently I’m misremembering it, because Google turns up nothing. So I’ll settle for this one:
Look what we found
in the park
in the dark.
We will take him home.
We will call him Clark.
He will live at our house.
He will grow and grow.
Will our mother like this?
We don’t know.
I’ve always thought that kind of summed up the craft of historical research.
Feel free to pass along your favorite Seuss quotes (or books!) in comments.
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