... 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.

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

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.

You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt