quotes about Abolitionist

“My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.”

“I do not believe in ghosts. I believe in ghost stories.”

“A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.”

“Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.”

“Gay people who want to marry have no desire to redefine marriage in any way. When women got the right to vote, it did not redefine voting.”

“Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.”

“Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.”

Source : Interview with Eugenia Loli, www.osnews.com. May 13, 2002.

“God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.”

“Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The tiny world of lovers' arms. Silence invades the breathing wood Where drowsy limbs a treasure keep, Now greenly falls the learned shade Across the sleeping brows And stirs their secret to a smile. Restored! Returned! The lost are borne On seas of shipwreck home at last: See! In a fire of praising burns The dry dumb past, and we Our life-day long shall part no more.”

“Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.”