History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

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