What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.