„If, as you hold, the great hulk of the colored people are not yet fit in point of character and influence to hold such positions, it seems to me that it is worth while putting a premium upon the effort among them to achieve the character and standing which will fit them.“

— Theodore Roosevelt

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„If the American people are not fit for popular government, and if they should of right be the servants and not the masters of those whom they themselves put in office, then Lincoln's work was wasted and the whole system of government upon which this great democratic republic rests is a failure.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„Today the people stand at the door of the university, and it is the university that must be flexible. It must color itself black, mulatto, worker, peasant, or else be left without doors. And then the people will tear it apart and paint it with the colors they see fit.“
— Ernesto Che Guevara
„People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.“
— Hermann Hesse
„I have a dress fitting to get to at three.' (Simon)'Cool,' said Kyle, slinging his messenger bag over his shoulder and heading for the door. 'Get them to make you something in red. It's totally your color.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my effort to create an equivalent with paint color for the world – life as I see it.“
— Georgia O'Keeffe
„If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.“
— Richard Bach