All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.

When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

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.