I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
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?
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
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.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
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.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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.
