"When a soldier is hit by a..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.”

“How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?”

“A gun will give you the body, not the bird”

“History: a collection of epitaphs.”

“Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.”

“The final reward of the dead - to die no more”

“We are not all equal, nor can we be so.”

“No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.”

“My mistakes are no worse than yours.”