And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.