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.

You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

We need our radicals.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.