Would America Have Been America Without Her

Oppression Costs The Oppressor Too Much If The Oppressed Stands Up And Protests. The Protest Need Not Be Merely Physical-the Throwing Of Stones And Bullets-if It Is Mental, Spiritual; If It Expresses Itself In Silent, Persistent Dissatisfaction, The Cost To The Oppressor Is Terrific.

I Have Loved My Work, I Have Loved People And My Play, But Always I Have Been Uplifted By The Thought That What I Have Done Well Will Live Long And Justify My Life, That What I Have Done Ill Or Never Finished Can Now Be Handed On To Others For Endless Days To Be Finished, Perhaps Better Than I Could Have Done.

Liberty Trains For Liberty. Responsibility Is The First Step In Responsibility.

Is A Civilization Naturally Backward Because It Is Different? Outside Of Cannibalism, Which Can Be Matched In This Country, At Least, By Lynching, There Is No Vice And No Degradation In Native African Customs Which Can Begin To Touch The Horrors Thrust Upon Them By White Masters. Drunkenness, Terrible Diseases, Immorality, All These Things Have Been Gifts Of European Civilization.

Begin With Art, Because Art Tries To Take Us Outside Ourselves. It Is A Matter Of Trying To Create An Atmosphere And Context So Conversation Can Flow Back And Forth And We Can Be Influenced By Each Other.