It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husbands bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored-it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.