Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. – Heywood Broun
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. – Heywood Broun
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. – Heywood Broun
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does! – Heywood Broun
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo. – Frantz Fanon