"More people have been imprisoned for Liberty, humiliated and tortured for Equality, and slaughtered for Fraternity in this century, than for any less hypocritical motives, during the Middle Ages." --Roy Campbell (1901-1957)
Roy Campbell was a Catholic poet and an anti-communist who appended this quote as a footnote to his poem, 'Flowering Rifle, A Poem From the Battlefield', written during the Spanish Civil War, after he had observed the Red Terror. I wish I could find the poem, but it still seems to be under copyright and is not available online, and none of his works appear to be available on Kindle.
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