Lillian Smith Quotes

Man, 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.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.

The 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?

I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.

Faith and doubt both are needed not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Faith is to believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.