Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you James and Godspeed.

There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.