Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'