A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.

In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.