A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

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Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.

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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

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Men must not only know, they must act.

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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

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The cause of war is preparation for war.

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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

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I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

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I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.

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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

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