"Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.