Jan Lynch

“The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around; brooded thereon; gave it the new arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again. It came into him, life; it went out from him, truth. It came to him, business; it went from him, poetry. It was dead fact; now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in proportion to the depth of the mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar: Self-Reliance, Compensation

“America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take. It is perhaps unrealistic to hope that I can help give this nation any of those things, but that is what I believe I have to try to do.”
― Shirley Chisholm, Unbought And Unbossed

“You can't argue with someone whose premises are completely different from yours, where there is not even an inch of common ground”
― Shirley Chisholm

“Nothing is as prolix as ignorance.”
― Thaddeus Stevens