Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.