A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
People fall forward to success.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
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.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
