Mark Cecil > Quotes

“For hate to go out in public, it has to dress like an ideal. Been on my back for years.”
― Mark Cecil, Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny: A Novel

“You know what makes a man’s man?” “What’s that?” “Doing whatever it takes. And sometimes that means being strong enough to say you’re weak.”
― Mark Cecil, Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny: A Novel

“I’m a beat-down man in a hard, hard world. I’ve got no time for nonsense.”
― Mark Cecil, Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny: A Novel

“Power doesn’t feel itself. Only the victim feels. Injustice doesn’t know itself. Only the victim knows. Between the tree and the axe, only the tree remembers.”
― Mark Cecil, Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny: A Novel

“White hands can’t be made dirty, and Black hands can’t be made clean.”
― Mark Cecil, Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny

“You took in the name of God, took in the name of science, took because only your conscience stood in your way; in other words, nothing stood in your way at all. You crushed us with disease, then guns, then laws, then drink. And last and most of all, you crushed us by simply looking the other way.”
― Mark Cecil, Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny

“Before a man’s ready, he can’t be moved. After a man’s ready, he can’t be stopped.”
― Mark Cecil, Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny: A Novel

“When you’ve got the gun and gavel both, the truth is yours to shove around.”
― Mark Cecil, Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny: A Novel