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

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.

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.

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.

Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'

You save your soul by saving someone else's body.

Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.