“...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.”
“Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?”
“Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.”
“The militant girl, in adopting new patterns of conduct, could not be judged by traditional standards. Old values, sterile and infantile phobias disappeared.”
“Be militantly optimistic”
“To the militant, identity is everything.”