The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America’s future.
The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.
The Bible gives me a deep, comforting sense that “things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.”
The best preparedness is one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them. Nothing is to be gained by the workers from war.
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.
The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.
The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.
That is because I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live, losing their sight or hearing or becoming impoverished, and I do not conceal this awkward position from anybody.
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its harshness.
