“I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.”
“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.”
| Alfonso X, Royalty (1221) |
| Vincent Cassel, Actor (1966) |
| Paul Celan, Poet (1920) |
| Joe Eszterhas, Writer (1944) |
| Oded Fehr, Actor (1970) |
| Steve Harvey, Actor (1956) |
| Boris Karloff, Actor (1887) |
| Mary Landrieu, Politician (1955) |
| Roy Acuff, Musician (1992) |
| Elbridge Gerry, Politician (1814) |
| Hanns Johst, Playwright (1978) |