The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element - learning.

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

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found