The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

In his groundbreaking 1952 book “Invisible Man,” Ralph Ellison introduces an unnamed African American narrator who relates his story from a basement-dwelling lit with 1,369 light bulbs. This room filled with light represents the man’s choice to see his life more clearly and to seek truth through enlightenment. Although “Invisible Man” was Ellison’s only novel published in his lifetime, more manuscripts were discovered in the award-winning author’s home after he died in 1994. This discovery resulted in the posthumous publication of a second novel, 1999’s “Juneteenth.” Even today, Ellison’s work continues to point us toward finding our truth from a place of quietly defiant illumination.

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present … fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

Abraham Lincoln (1862), on the imperative of winning the Civil War

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Knowledge is in every Country the surest basis of public happiness.

George Washington (1790), urging the pursuit of science in his first address on the State of the Union.

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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.”

William Faulkner

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What need you, being come to sense,
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer, until
You have dried the marrow from the bone;
For men were born to pray and save:
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.

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Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.

Tryon Edwards, theologian

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Be not simply good – be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

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You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

Willy Wonka, paraphrasing a line from Helaire Beloc’s “The Microbe” (1897)

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