This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

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

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

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.

Example is better than precept.