A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

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

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

prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.