Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.

Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds.

It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine of fifty dollars and a jail sentence. . . Our ignorance was the greatest hold the South had on us. We knew we could run away, but what then?