If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisio…

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make…