As the term of my relief from this place [Washington, D.C.] approaches, it's drudgery becomes more nauseating and intolerable, and... my impatience to be with you at Monticello increases daily.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Divide and conquer--that's what they try to do to any group trying to make social change. I call it D&C. Black people are supposed... to turn against Puerto Ricans. Women are supposed to turn against their mothers and mothers-in-law. We're all supposed to compete with each other for the favors of the ruling class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look a here people, listen to me, Don't try to find no home in Washington, D.C.... Lord, it's a bourgeois town, it's a bourgeois town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is a much newer experiment in human living, one with moral concerns at its core. In this respect it differs from Europe, w...hich has preferred sophistication and worldly wisdom to "righteousness," and resembles China, which saw the universe itself as essentially a moral order. However materialistic Americans may be in their economic pursuits, their ceremonies emphasize the material far less than European societies have. America has imposing official architecture. Washington, D.C., boasts a radial baroque stateliness. Yet one of its most important buildings, the White House, is a modest dwelling, its scale far smaller than that of the palaces of Europe and Asia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To-morrow I will have finished four-score years. I have lived to rise from the most despised and hated woman in all the world of f...ifty years ago, until now it seems as if I am loved by you all. If this is true, then I am indeed satisfied.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying princi...ple of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for peop...le of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself cannot stand upon it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »