I suddenly realized that the devout Russian people no longer needed priests to pray them into heaven. On earth they were building a kingdom more bright than any heaven had to offer, and for which it was a glory to die.
ATTRIBUTION:
John Reed (1887–1920), U.S. journalist, author. Ten Days That Shook the World, ch. 10 (1926).
On the mass burial of five hundred soldiers and workers in Red Square, November 1917.
