Quotes

“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We must be our own before we can be another's.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence . . .” Ella Baker

“I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight. . .” Ella Baker

“There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statements and is acclaimed by the establishment, such a person gets to the point of believing that he is the movement.” Ella Baker

“In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.” Ella Baker

“One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.” Ella Baker

“The struggle is eternal. The tribe increase. Somebody else carries on.” Ella Baker

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Edgar Allan Poe

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” Edgar Allan Poe

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.” Edgar Allan Poe

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” Edgar Allan Poe

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.” Edgar Allan Poe

“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.” Edgar Allan Poe

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” Edgar Allan Poe

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” Edgar Allan Poe

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” Edgar Allan Poe

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.” Edgar Allan Poe

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” Edgar Allan Poe

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.” Edgar Allan Poe

“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.” Edgar Allan Poe

“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” Edgar Allan Poe