I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.