Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".

I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.