A biography for John Hopehasn’t been written yet.
“I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.”
“Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.”
“We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.”
“If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.”
“One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.”
“We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.”