““What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old republic had no correspondence to the fact of the old republic; that the glorious word concealed the deed of honor;that the appearance of tradition and order cloaked the reality of corruption and chaos; that the call to liberty and freedom closed the minds, even of those who called, to the facts of privation, suppression, and sanctioned murder. We had learned that we had to do what we did, and we would not be deterred by the forms that deceived the world.””
![“Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught - and it is a disgrace that you aren't - that these men and women were…” quote by Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/34d/naomi-wolf-1344_declaration_here-s-what-we-re-not-taught-about-the-d_1777102.jpg)
