Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

I am an agnostic as to the question of God.