"She just knew that even when you had nothing, you still had love."

-- Joe Hill

“Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.”
“A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.”
“Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.”
“I hate losing more than I like winning”
“The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.”
“I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.”
“Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.”

Source : Roger Ascham, James Upton, Thomas Master, Sir Henry Savile (1711). “The Schoolmaster: Or, A Plain and Perfect Way of Teaching Children to Underftand, Write, and Speak the Latin Tongue”, p.136
“I have so much to do! And there's so little time!”

Source : JOHN GUNTHER “DEATH BE NOT PROUD”

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