The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
