From the book

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty.

Joseph the Younger

I have a dream that one day...the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Drabble