Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

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

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.