Leon Quotes - page 2

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. (Andrej Pejic)
No French government except Léon Blum's short-lived Popular Front of 1936 paid serious attention to the grievous mis-rule practiced by colonial administrators in French North Africa. Moderate Algerian nationalists like Ferhat Abbas were well known to French politicians and intellectuals before and after World War Two, but no-one really expected Paris to concede their modest goals of self-government or ‘home rule' any time soon. View quote
Tony Judt
[Roman Vishniac is] the official mortuary photographer of Eastern European Jewry. -- Leon Wieseltier, editor of The New Republic. View quote
Roman Vishniac