I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country. — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about. — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness? — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt;… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for us to… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logically the next step… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires. — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives. — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
