Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
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.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
People fall forward to success.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
