Simon Provins

“The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that 22 million black people have not risen up against their oppressors – in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria, and even by the democratic tradition! It is a miracle that a nation of black people has so fervently continued to believe in a turn-the-other-cheek and heaven-for-you-after-you-die philosophy! It is a miracle that the American black people have remained a peaceful people, while catching all the centuries of hell that they have caught, here in white man’s heaven! The miracle is that the white man’s puppet Negro ‘leaders’, his preachers and the educated Negroes laden with degrees, and others who have been allowed to wax fat off their black poor brothers, have been able to hold the black masses quiet until now.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Being magnanimous in victory usually worked, but to keep abreast of the situation he had to 
pump the girl for all she knew. Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind? 
Possibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“While master of myself, I’ll not permit
The soothing beauty of a tear to roll
Along the crooked contours of this nose.
There’s a sublimity in tears; and I
Would not debase them;
I would never turn
Something sublime to the ridiculous.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
― Leo Tolstoy