Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

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.

If it’s the right person, it’s easy.

How could I forget the man who can break uncountable bones just in a few seconds.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

I'm proud to be a New York Yankee.

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldnt say I have a major sweet tooth.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.