“Most of us feel powerless most of our lives. But when you do something unthinkable, like going to Spain—and going to Spain, to me, was pretty unthinkable—after I survived that and didn’t die, other things were never as frightening.

“Not to be active is dangerous.You have to get angry about things that are unjust and you have to do something about it.”

Ruth Davidow
Davidow marching with the Lincoln vets against U.S. intervention in Nicaraugua and at a meeting of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.