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

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . . He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. . . . he simply worked, inspiring the young, rebuking the old, helping the weak, guiding the strong.

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

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

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