Quote of the day
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Paul Blanshard
Born: August 27, 1892
Died: January 27, 1980 (aged 87)
Bio: Paul Beecher Blanshard was an American author, assistant editor of The Nation magazine, lawyer, socialist, secular humanist, and from 1949 an outspoken critic of Catholicism.
Known for:
- American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949)
- Communism, Democracy And Catholic Power (1951)
- Classics of Free Thought (1977)
- An outline of the British labor movement (1923)
- Irish and catholic power (1953)