"When you have never known a thing except to dream, it becomes more than a talisman."

"I also learned how they hungered for education. We take it for granted nowadays, that we get free education. That was major, that they didn't have it, and when they had it they passed it on with whate…"

"It all smacks of trying to have your cake and eat it, although I’ve never understood that phrase. I don’t know what else you could do with a cake. Hold doors open, maybe."

"There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation."

"One thing, it would seem, is certain. The days of treating Negroes like sheep are done with. They cannot be maintained indefinitely in a submerged position, because the overwhelming bulk of white Amer…"