“Very busy people always find time for everything.
Conversely, people with immense leisure find time for nothing.”

Source: Zibaldone (2013) trans. Kathleen Baldwin et al., [527] ISBN 978-0374296827

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

As quoted in "Q+A: William H. Macy Finds God" by Simon Abrams, in Esquire online (27 January 2012) http://www.esquire.com/the-side/qa/sundance-2012/william-h-macy-sundance-interview-6647129

Source: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 14.10

Book Three, Chapter XXII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

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Stray Birds (1916)

1860s, What the Black Man Wants (1865)
Context: We may be asked, I say, why we want it. I will tell you why we want it. We want it because it is our right, first of all. No class of men can, without insulting their own nature, be content with any deprivation of their rights. We want it again, as a means for educating our race. Men are so constituted that they derive their conviction of their own possibilities largely from the estimate formed of them by others. If nothing is expected of a people, that people will find it difficult to contradict that expectation. By depriving us of suffrage, you affirm our incapacity to form an intelligent judgment respecting public men and public measures; you declare before the world that we are unfit to exercise the elective franchise, and by this means lead us to undervalue ourselves, to put a low estimate upon ourselves, and to feel that we have no possibilities like other men. Again, I want the elective franchise, for one, as a colored man, because ours is a peculiar government, based upon a peculiar idea, and that idea is universal suffrage.

Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer