For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
“To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives...” — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation. — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality. — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
