Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.Collection: Children
Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.Collection: Fear
I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do I believe in demanding love - that should be the gift of a free will. But simply to be kind - that is not too much to ask of any of us.Collection: Kindness
You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.Collection: Theory
Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.Collection: Powerful
Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.Collection: Real
if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.Collection: Hate
Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.Collection: War
At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.Collection: New Experiences