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Fear is a hazard of great endeavors to bridge political differences. In 1963, racial apprehension before [the March on Washington] drove the federal government to furlough its workers for the day. The Pentagon deployed 20,000 paratroopers. Hospitals stockpiled plasma. Washington banned sales of alcohol, and Major League Baseball canceled not just one but two days of [Washington’s baseball games], just to be sure. When the march of benign inspiration embarrassed these measures, opponents still insisted that the civil rights bill would enslave white people. — Taylor Branch

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. — C.S. Lewis

Were I to be reduced again to the chains, I regard being the slave of a religious slaveholder the greatest calamity that could befall me. They are the worst, the basest, the meanest, the most cruel and cowardly of all others. — Frederick Douglass

Laughter at oneself is always proof that God has healed us in the touchy places. — Eugenia Price

War is as outmoded as cannibalism, chattel slavery, blood feuds, and dueling, an insult to God and humanity . . . and a daily crucifixion of Christ. — Muriel Lester

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, you cannot say, or guess, for you know only a heap of broken images. These fragments I have shored against my ruins. — T.S. Eliot

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. — Simone Weil

We are all meant to be mothers of God. — Meister Eckhart

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. — Mother Teresa