August 23, 1927
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
by Keith Christensen
Detail, Pathfinder Mural (Destroyed)
"If it had not been for this thing, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life can we hope to do such work for tolerance, justice, for man's understanding of man, as now we do by accident.
Our words - our lives - our pains - nothing! The taking of our lives - lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler - all! That last moment belong to us - that agony is our triumph."
-- Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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