If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.