The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is...
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual but you cannot make him respect you.