I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

commitment stays on, both in good and in bad, for better for worste

You've got to love what's lovable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

There are never enough I Love You's.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion!