Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.

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

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.