...the heart has no tears to give, --it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

In the midst of life we are in death, '" said Miss Ophelia.

Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me.

Liberty! -- Electric word!

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

«Couldn't never be nothin' but a nig*er, if I was ever so good, » said Topsy. «If I could be skinned, and come white, I'd try then.»

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

There is nothing worse than fear. Fear is worse than cancer, fear is worse than torture, fear is worse than betrayal and fear is even worse than death.

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

I did not get a million-dollar or multimillion-dollar loan from my dad.

Since no man has a predetermined destiny, every day all man can create a new destiny for himself!

Skepticism doesn't help you hear.

Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.