The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

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

The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves.

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

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.