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“Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.”
Source : Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”
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“Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you sustain that kind of affront, and sustain it and sustain it and sustain it, something happens to you. You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response. For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.”
Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005. 
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“Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.”
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“I like Aurora, Sleeping Beauty, because shes just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.”
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“There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God.”
Source : Jim Palmer (2007). “Wide Open Spaces: Beyond Paint-by-Number Christianity”, p.178, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“Every day of my life I have been in situations, not just in Mexico, in the US too, in which I identified the form of operation as racism. There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.”
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“When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.”
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“Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.”
Source : Address at the Leadership and Diversity Conference, Gatineau, Canada, May 19, 2004.
