There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.

Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.

I feel that when a white child goes to school only with white children, unconsciously that child grows up in many instances devoid of a world perspective. There is an unconscious provincialism, and it can develop into an unconscious superiority complex just as a Negro develops an unconscious inferiority complex.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day