By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.