America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

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

The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.

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.