Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.