Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

When I remove the layers that say I can't, I discover a burning ember that says I should, I can, and I will.

You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the break you take every once in a while.

Life insurance is a commodity.

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

The secret to finding our passion is that we bring passion in everything that we do.

Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.

And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish

Ash sarcastically rang an invisible bell with his hand. "Ding, ding, ding. Give that boy a tropphy.

Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.