When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.

Enter to learn; depart to serve.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds