User:Czar/drafts/Bartolomeo Vanzetti's final statement
Those who described the statement as a classic include Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature.[1]
Statement
[edit]"If it had not been for these thing [sic], I might have live [sic] out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have die [sic], unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for joostice [sic], for man's onderstanding [sic] of man, as now we do by accident. Our words—our lives—our plans—nothing! The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish-peddler—all! That last moment belongs to us—that agony is our triumph."[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Sacco-Vanzetti case". Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature. 1991. Gale A16855233 – via EBSCOhost.
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=EyA3EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA848
Further reading
[edit]- Grossman, James (1970). "Vanzetti and Hawthorne". American Quarterly. 22 (4): 902–907. doi:10.2307/2711876. ISSN 0003-0678. JSTOR 2711876.
- Somkin, Fred (1981). "How Vanzetti Said Goodbye". The Journal of American History. 68 (2): 298–312. doi:10.2307/1889974. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 1889974.
- "Communications". The Journal of American History. 69 (3): 793–797. 1982. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 1903250.