The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. – Norman Douglas
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Norman Douglas
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. – Norman Douglas
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958