Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain’t a man surely!

A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal?

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.