26 Quotes by Meridel Le Sueur

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

They never die, who have the future in them.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

It’s not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

Survival is a form of resistance.

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.