“There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold.”

“There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold.”

“I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.”

“When you reach voting age, we will take your opinion under consideration.”

“There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold.”

“Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?”

“Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand.”

“Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?”

“Everyone loves a girl who can rise to a crisis.”

“I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.”

“We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free.”

“Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.”