“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer
Last message to the world (written 1957); read at his funeral (1963)
Source: Gift from the Sea
“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer
Last message to the world (written 1957); read at his funeral (1963)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Part III, Chapter 18, A Month with Gokhale II
1920s, An Autobiography (1927)
“I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!”
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
Variant: To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Canadian-born American writer
Nobel Prize lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/bellow-lecture.html (12 December 1976) <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Context: Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.