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.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

... 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.