We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

All the love, learning and opportunities that you seek come from being open to life not being closed throughout it.

Let yourself go. Let others in. This is the essence of being made in God's image.

Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

I'm a fake intellectual.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.

Good times don't last long sometimes.

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.