American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

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.

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.

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.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

We are not in the world, the world is inside us.

Humanity is still in her infancy.

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God.

Having good relations with lots of lots of different people helps a lot.

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

Train children to bear responsibility as you would train them to build muscle. Add what they can handle, then prepare them for more.