Quote: Rich folks always talk hard times. [Lillian Smith]
Quote: 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. [Lillian Smith]
Quote: For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into the masses. And where is the David who can slay this giant? [Lillian Smith]
Quote: When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. [Lillian Smith]
Quote: 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. [Lillian Smith]
Quote: 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. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely. [Lillian Smith]
Quote: Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. [Lillian Smith]