... 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.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.