Quote of the day
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
Jan Myrdal

Born: July 19, 1927
Died: October 30, 2020 (aged 93)
Bio: Jan Myrdal was a Swedish author, leftist-political writer and columnist. He was an honorary doctor of literature at Upsala College in New Jersey, US, and a PhD at Nankai University in Tianjin in China. He lived at various times in the United States, Afghanistan, Iran and India.
Known for:
- India waits (1980)
- Confessions of a disloyal European (1968)
- Childhood (1991)
- 12 Going on 13







