It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

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

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Most mothers kiss and scold together.