A person's a person, no matter how small.
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.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
