Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.

If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.