Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality