There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about colored women, and if colored men get their rig...hts, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I'm for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and having done everything, to st...and firm. Stand therefore, and fasten the belt of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness. As shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the gospel of peace. With all of these, take the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the... other fellow to make the first move--and he, in turn, waits for you. The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open- hearted and courageous way, many others follow. Not everyone can be turned aside from meanness and hatred, but the great majority of Americans is heading in that direction. I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For 'truth' itself is a...n abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substance ... or a quality ... or a relation.... But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word 'true.' In vino, possibly, 'veritas,' but in a sober symposium 'verum.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begi...n to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is a pain I mostly hide, but ties of blood, or seed endure,... and even now I feel inside the hunger for his outstretched hand, a man's embrace to take me in, the need for just a word of praise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but yet every look,... word, and action should imply the utmost respect.... You must wait till you are spoken to; you must receive, not give, the subject of conversation, and you must even take care that the given subject of such conversation do not lead you into any impropriety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, you ...are obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,--to r...egard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than as a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, then, stay here; but know, When thou hast stayed and done thy most,... A naked thinking heart that makes no show Is to a woman but a kind of ghost. How shall she know my heart; or, having none, Know thee for one? Practice may make her know some other part, But take my word, she doth not know a heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »