You have to keep moving forward

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.