In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

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.

...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.

Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another.

I want out of this place.With no reminders."It stings -sulphur tearsin cinnamon rain.

If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva." he flattened me into the side of the car. I was pinned by six feet, two inches of violently aroused male.