"Just give me my rights. All I want is the same rights that my fathers died for If I don't deserve no rights, then who does deserve rights? I didn't break no law."

“Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.”

“It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!”

“I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people ... I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from [the Native Americans] ... Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”

“The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them.”

“During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

“It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.”

Source : "Kevin Powers on The Yellow Birds: 'I felt those things, and asked the same questions'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

“Relationships are such that if one person changes, the relationship changes.”

Source : Michele Weiner Davis (2008). “The Sex-Starved Wife: What to Do When He's Lost Desire”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

“I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.”