Elizabeth Yates Quotes

#1. The At-mun-shi were as pagan as all the tribes in Africa, but they were peaceable and they were, as well, intense in their love of freedom.

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#2. Once it was his hard-earned money that had been used to buy her freedom. How could she speak against his doing something with what was his for another in need?

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#3. He said little about his dream but he nourished it in his heart as the best place for a dream to grow.

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#4. Benj had once said, "A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.

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#5. What right had she to oppose him? Yet it was he who had given her freedom. The word was meaningless unless in its light each one lived up to his highest and his best.

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#6. When something wonderful happens...it is to be cherished in the heart and in the mind. We must not be afraid of the wonderful things, nor must we let others laugh them away from us. Only thus do we learn how to hold our dreams.

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#7. There's a fire that burns fast the more fuel goes on it and that's shiftlessness," Violet said stoutly. "Lois is a shiftless woman and money is just so much fuel to her fire.

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#8. Always she thought of him as climbing some mountain in his mind, like that great one to the west on which his eyes would dwell so often and from which he seemed to derive something that was even more than strength.

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#9. Martha looked at her son. So this was the beginning of growing up. This was where the road they had been traveling together first parted.

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#10. ..for Africa was in a way none of them could explain linked up with heaven and they thought of the two places with the same reverence and ultimate longing.

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#11. But even while Lily was his wife, Amos thought of Ath-mun - now only a faint frail part of memory but still dear. He hoped that in making one black woman free he had made Ath-mun free if she was in need of freedom.

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#12. Loveliest of any blossoming thing to her was that green stalk with its white bells. White was the most beautiful color she knew. Yet when she would say that to Amos he would remind her that the brown of the earth from which the flowers came was a good color too.

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#13. some things are too wonderful even for a child, and freedom's one of them

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