You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight of monkeys eating their own excrement turns some people’s stomachs. They might not mind so much if monkeys did not- so grotesquely- resemble human beings.

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!