Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that before we canbe of value to other nations of the world and then organize to accomplish the things that you decide to want. Anddon't make decisions with the interest of youth alone before you. Make your decisions because they are good for the nation as a whole.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

... 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.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.