Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
ATTRIBUTION:
Dorothy Day (1897–1980), U.S. religious leader. The Long Loneliness, pt. 1 (1952).
