Speaking My Conscience
A Bad Editorial from Bad Subjects

"I've decided that I want to be like Lillian Hellman.
Ten years from now, when I look back at these years
of looming war and terrorism,
of vague promises of future horrors
if the U.S. cannot create safety
by changing the world in its own image,
I want to be proud of what I did and said.
To quote Lillian Hellman's letter
to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in 1952,
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience
to fit this year's fashions.' "