If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
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.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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 world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.