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

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

... 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.

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.