Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

Remove yourself, sir!

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.You've got to become them."(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.

Only you are responsible for the development of your gift and for its brilliant after the process of its refinement

Closeness was the promise of suffering and pain

THE BROKEN HEART STILL HAS HEART BEATS. THOUGH YOU MAY FEEL LIKE DEATH, YOU ARE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK!

The American woman is a monstrosity.

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

"Forget Barbie, f-ck Nicki she's fake. She's on a diet", but my pockets eating cheese cake.

A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.

Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost