To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of… — Lillian Smith Copy Share
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 metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready… — Lillian Smith Copy Share
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 seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation. — Lillian Smith Copy Share
The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality. — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
