Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

No man is a devil in his own mind.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.