Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.