US History 1973 - 2014 Commonplace Book: Lecture 12, AIDS in America (Con't)

They have spoken against you everywhere,
But weight his song with the great and their pride;
I made it out of a mouthful of air,
Their children's children shall say they have lied.

— W. B. Yeats, "He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved",
quoted as an epigraph to Larry Kramer, Reports from the Holocaust (1989)

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