My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

I'm lonely I'll make me a world.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms