“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.

All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.

I’ve been laughed at, hated on, no one would even play my songs. Wouldn’t even listen to anything that my name was on.

Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.

Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

Keep on loving in the face of hate.