Our true nationality is mankind.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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.
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.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
A human being is a deciding being.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
