Men have to be reminded that women exist.

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world.

...without equality there can be no democracy.