Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

Life was meant to be lived.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.