Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over.

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty...

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.