How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
A human being is a deciding being.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
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.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
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.
Our true nationality is mankind.
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
