Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo. Red cataracts of France to-day Awake, three thousand miles away, An echo of Niagara The cataract of Niagara.
– Vachel Lindsay
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
– Vachel Lindsay
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
– Vachel Lindsay
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
– Vachel Lindsay
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.