You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.

I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.