I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

As a way of getting in touch with my originsevery night I set the alarm clockfor the time I was born so that waking upbecomes a historical reenactment...

The law of attraction is feeble without the law of action.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times

You don't have to want death in order to prepare for it.

...some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.

I despise this weakness in myself - this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action.

That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people.