Lillian Smith Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Lillian Smith
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. — Lillian Smith
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making. — Lillian Smith
None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength. — Lillian Smith
[The truth] is what actually happens. Not what you want to happen. Not what you're afraid will happen. We make up stories when we want things to happen or are afraid they may happen. And sometimes we do it for fun-or to scare people or make them do our way or to hurt them. And sometimes we do it because it's a pretty story and we tell it just as we fly a kite or send balloons floating. — Lillian Smith
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think. — Lillian Smith
Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation. — Lillian Smith
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. — Lillian Smith
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. — Lillian Smith
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. — Lillian Smith
The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be? — Lillian Smith
Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation. — Lillian Smith
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. — Lillian Smith
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. — Lillian Smith
Rich folks always talk hard times. — Lillian Smith
For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into the masses. And where is the David who can slay this giant? — Lillian Smith