“There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.”

We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

Your little child is the only true democrat.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.

The heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.

My vocation to preach on paper.

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?

A revolution is a class struggle.

Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

I’d taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn’t a musical theater person at all.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.

Education doesn’t just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.