Then I will speak upon the ashes.

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

What you're going through is not meant to hurt you, but meant to deliver you from the evil oppressing you.

There are no plans, just people fooling themselves by attempting to design their fates and futures. It makes them feel invincible, even if it’s for a transient period of time.

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.

I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction.

It's a little strange when you have never been to war, and you eye-roll about a guy who's got shrapnel still in his body, as Chuck Hagel does.

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.