#unspeakable

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#allowed #basic #basic human rights #blacks #cruelty

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#credited #drudgery #result #seldom #source

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#country #creature #crime #fury #hour

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#incomprehensible #pick #pockets #recitation #theology

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#dignity #each #face #go #heart

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ↗

— George Eliot

#feel #greater #human #human souls #joined

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#adorable #dawn #grace #happy #joined

We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying! ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#bread #funny #funny stuff #happy #i

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#against #another #committed #cruelty #men

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#atrocities #committed #country #states #united