It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.