We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

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.

I want to introduce myself to every freckle on your body.

Life is stranger than any of us expected, There is a somber, imponderable fate.Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

Endurance of life problems, spirit of survival.

The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

It's pretty hard to offend me. I actually think people are a little too easily offended.

But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!

Trapped dreams must die.

Conscience is the root of all true courage.