I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.

Working with my hands keeps me sane.

Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.