A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.

Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

Do not to look at what you are seeing, do not look at the visible work

Friendship...is not something you learn in school, but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but I will surely kill you.

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

I move through the third world, my third eye's the guiding light / Invite the fight, we all die tonight

A lot of people say, 'Well, I like a challenge. 'I don't like challenges. Life is tough enough without any challenges.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place.

And random bits of happiness, like Finnick and Annie's newborn boy.