If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

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

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

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

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.