I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Category Archive: 1820
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus’ as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an’ I could not understand ‘dem, no how.
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
Everything you do in a patient’s room, after he is ‘put up’ for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk – you secure him a bad night.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.