The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.

我坚持我所相信的，不在乎别人怎么想。

The political spirit tends to make men stand aloof from each other.

I don’t want to be better than anybody else. I just want to be better than I was yesterday.

人生如梦，不必过于执着。