If I Were A Young Man, I

I Feel Myself The Inheritor Of A Great Background Of People. Just Who, Precisely, They Were, I Have Never Known. I Might Be Part Negro, Might Be Part Jew, Part Muslim, Part Irish. So I Can't Afford To Be Supercilious About Any Group Of People Because I May Be That People.

If A Man Happens To Find Himself, He Has A Mansion Which He Can Inhabit With Dignity All The Days Of His Life.

I Am Terrified Of Restrictive Religious Doctrine, Having Learned From History That When Men Who Adhere To Any Form Of It Are In Control, Common Men Like Me Are In Peril.

You Don't Fight To Protect Warships Or Old Men. Like The Book Says, You Fight To Save Your Civilization. And So Often It Seems That Civilization Is Composed Mainly Of The Things Women And Children Want.

For This Is The Journey That Men And Women Make, To Find Themselves. If They Fail In This, It Doesn't Matter Much Else What They Find.