John Boyle O'Reilly Men Quotations

Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.

Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls.

Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.

... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.