Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.
Lillian SmithNone but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.
Lillian SmithMan, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian SmithThe question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?
Lillian SmithTo believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.
Lillian Smith