Josephine Quotes

“She'd created her own hell, and now that she had learned to control her fear, she knew how to create her own paradise.”

“People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.”

“You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.”

“I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.”

“When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.”

“All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.”

“You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.”

“The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.”

“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”