All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for, and he fou...ght for them once, for the only reason that any man ever fights for them. Because of just one plain, simple rule--Love Thy Neighbor. And in this world today, full of hatred, a man who knows that one rule has a great trust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You didn't just have faith in Paine or any other living man. You had faith in something bigger than that. You had plain, decent, e...very day common rightness. And this country could use some of that. Yeah, so could the whole cockeyed world. A lot of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The confirmation of Clarence Thomas, one of the most conservative voices to be added to the [Supreme] Court in recent memory, carr...ies a sobering message for the African- American community.... As he begins to make his mark upon the lives of African Americans, we must acknowledge that his successful nomination is due in no small measure to the support he received from black Americans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselv...es up by their own bootstraps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the oddest episodes I remember was an occasion in which [Clarence] Thomas was drinking a Coke in his office, he got up from... the table, at which we were working, went over to his desk to get the Coke, looked at the can and asked, "Who has put pubic hair on my coke?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know St. Thomas Aquinas calls eternity, nunc stans, and ever-abiding now; which is easy enough to say, but though I fain would, ...yet I could never conceive it: they that can are more happy than I.... I understand as little how it can be true his Lordship says, that God is not just, but justice itself; not wise, but wisdom itself; not eternal, but eternity itself;... These phrases I find not in the Scripture; I wonder therefore what was the design of the Schoolmen to bring them up, unless they thought a man could not be a true Christian unless his understanding be first strangled with such hard sayings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority o...f an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow no...tions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I were content to wearie out my paine, To bee Narsissus so she were a spring... To drowne in hir those woes my heart do wring: And more I wish transformed to remaine: That whilest I thus in pleasures lappe did lye, I might refresh desire, which else would die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With wonderful art he grinds into paint for his picture all his moods and experiences, so that all his forces may be brought to th...e encounter. Apparently writing without a particular design or responsibility, setting down his soliloquies from time to time, taking advantage of all his humors, when at length the hour comes to declare himself, he puts down in plain English, without quotation marks, what he, Thomas Carlyle, is ready to defend in the face of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »