When we honestly ask ourselves
which person in our lives means the most to us,
we often find it is those who,
instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,
have chosen rather to share our pain
and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
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When we honestly ask ourselves
which person in our lives means the most to us,
we often find it is those who,
instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,
have chosen rather to share our pain
and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Each age,
it is found,
must write its own books;
or rather,
each generation for the next succeeding.
I do not believe that civilization
will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn
that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy
, working at ten dollars per month)
have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth,
and aristocratic family distinction.
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.
I was allowed to read.
My mother, who was a teacher,
taught me when I was a very young child.
The first school I attended was a small building
that went from first to sixth grade.
There was one teacher for all of the students.
There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.
These capitalists generally act harmoniously
and in concert to fleece the people;
and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves,
we are called upon to
appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.