Lillian Smith Quotes

#1. Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

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#2. Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

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#3. Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

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#4. The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

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#5. None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

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#6. To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

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#7. When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

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#8. Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

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#9. The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

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#10. Rich folks always talk hard times.

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#11. I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.

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#12. The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

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#13. The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

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