...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms

A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.