We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
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.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
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.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
