The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.

Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve?

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.

The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.