The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.
A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.