A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.