How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
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.
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.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.