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

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

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

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

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.