"Chekhov, Coltrane, and Democracy: Interview by David Lionel Smith." in The Cornel West Reader (1998)
“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2004/02/25/random_thoughts/page/full, Feb 25, 2004
2000s
“You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth”
Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 8
“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean.”
The Reivers (1962)
Context: When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it, which is not innocence but appetite; his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it, which is not ignorance but size. But Boon didn't know this. He must seduce me. And he had so little time: only from the time the train left until dark.
“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday
“2084. He that does not speak Truth to me, does not believe me when I speak Truth.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
