The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.

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

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them.