Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
A human being is a deciding being.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
