“The forfeiture is exactly the sort of thing which has landed us where we are : where intellectual inquiry is shut out; where our tradition are not examined and reassessed and where as a consequence there is no dialogue.”

Source: The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005), p.88

New England's Dead, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

2015, Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney (June 2015)
Context: As a nation, out of this terrible tragedy, God has visited grace upon us, for he has allowed us to see where we’ve been blind. He has given us the chance, where we’ve been lost, to find our best selves. We may not have earned it, this grace, with our rancor and complacency, and short-sightedness and fear of each other -- but we got it all the same. He gave it to us anyway. He’s once more given us grace. But it is up to us now to make the most of it, to receive it with gratitude, and to prove ourselves worthy of this gift.

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Africa and Freedom, Nobel Lecture (1961)
Context: ... as a Christian and patriot, [I] could not look on while systematic attempts were made, almost in every department of life, to debase the God-factor in man or to set a limit beyond which the human being in his black form might not strive to serve his Creator to the best of his ability. To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Vatican should talk to China — but not at any price https://www.ucanews.com/amp/vatican-should-talk-to-china-but-not-at-any-price/93985 (1 October 2021)

Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. 231