“I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy—because we’re experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that’s what’s going on now.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
I hadn’t read this quote before. It made me snort, then I remembered that the author was dead, and it made me sad. We need more authors like Kurt.