health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

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

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

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.