The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.