Carter

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

“Worry and improper thinking are luxuries as dangerous as drink.”
― Evangeline Walton, Witch House

“If men become tyrants, they shape for themselves the doom of tyrants, who are always betrayed.”
― Evangeline Walton, The Mabinogion Tetralogy

“For other men --- men who are part of something, who follow a chief they believe in, or ways they were reared in from birth --- they can keep their eyes from seeing what they have not been taught to see, and do not want to see. But too late was I brought to my father’s house. I tried to be part of it, but I never could.”
― Evangeline Walton, The Cross and the Sword