If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.

ah, life—the thingthat happensto uswhile we’re offsomewhere elseblowing ondandelions& wishingourselves intothe pages ofour favoritefairy tales.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

Maybe you're not doing it right""I wasn't aware there was a technique to tree hugging.

Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

I'm not a leading guy.