HistoryLetter

My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities 'unwise and untimely.'

I found this data of such import that I have convened a Board consisting of the head of the Bureau of Standards and a chosen representative of the Army and Navy to thoroughly investigate the possibilities of your suggestion regarding the element of uranium.

We are having a lovely voyage so far. The weather is beautiful and the sea is smooth. Eva is enjoying herself immensely.

Never let them change the truth of our innocence. We are innocent, as we have proclaimed and maintained from the time of our arrest.

Yesterday the greatest Question was decided, which ever was debated in America, and a greater perhaps, never was or will be decided among Men.

It is a great life. I am more oblivious than alas! yourself, dear Mother, of the ghastly glimmering of the guns outside.

We are overwhelmed! Our hearts are sickened, our utterance is paralized, when we reflect on the condition in which we are placed.

I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett. I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart - and I love you too.

I have terminated my political career, and I come to sit down by the hearth of the British people.

I am resolved to put all my strength at the service of my adopted country, since I cannot do anything for my unfortunate native country.

I thank God that He has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things unrevealed to bygone ages.

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language they seem to understand is the one we have been using to bombard them.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.

It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state.

I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times.

I am your fellow man, but not your slave.

I have lost everything. Anne and Margot are gone. Edith is gone. I alone survived.

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the whites ever made with us have they kept? Not one.

There is something inside me, what can it be? I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things.

I have been fairly successful in putting on a mask behind which I have pined for my family, alone, never rushing for the post when it comes until somebody calls out my name.

We seem to be very near the bleak choice between War and Shame. My feeling is that we shall choose Shame, and then have War thrown in a little later.

I have discovered a great many islands inhabited by numerous people. I took possession of all of them for Your Highnesses by proclamation and display of the Royal Standard.

The general theory of relativity has been completed. I have finally solved the problem of gravitation and planetary motion.

The colonies have borne every burden you have placed upon us with patience, hoping that reason and justice would prevail. But our patience is now exhausted.

Literature cannot develop between the categories 'permitted' and 'not permitted,' 'about this you may write' and 'about this you may not.'

Tomorrow we will march to Montgomery. I do not know what will happen. The police may try to stop us. But we must march.

A cloud was rising whose appearance I cannot give you a more exact description of than by comparing it to a pine tree.

We may differ in our methods, but I believe we share the same ultimate goal - the uplift and advancement of our race.

The surface is fine and powdery. I can pick it up loosely with my toe. It adheres in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots.