In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.