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.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
People fall forward to success.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
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.
A human being is a deciding being.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.