A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway, I try to get better with each one.

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

I just get on with my game and let the referees do their job.

Like the children we will never ever cease to be.

The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.