Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie Chaplin
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity reason and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke
I speak to the black experience but I am always talking about the human condition - about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive.
Maya Angelou
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus and Heaven.
H. L. Mencken
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
Marcus Aurelius
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
Say what you have to say, and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Winston Churchill
