I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

I want to be different from anyone ever.

I think actors who take things too far are funny.

We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

the deepest part of me is, and will always be, a climber. ... No matter where I go, I always feel like a climber.