It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
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.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
