The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.