The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.