Chiar dacă volant, verba lasă urme!

”Remember the old adage, ‘Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me’. True courage consists in doing what is right, despite the jeers and sneers of our companions.”
The Christian Recorder, 1862

However fleetingly, words do scare!
Otherwise, why bother?!?

And since I really doubt that enough of you will follow the link and read the entire article, here’s another interesting thing.

“The earliest citation of it that I can find is from an American periodical with a largely black audience, The Christian Recorder, March 1862“

Which means that back in 1862 there were enough black people interested in reading. Enough to constitute an audience for a periodical! A periodical which dealt in words…