What Could We Accomplish If We Knew

... Many Of The Things Which We Deplore, The Prevalence Of Tuberculosis, The Mounting Record Of Crime In Certain Sections Of The Country, Are Not Due Just To Lack Of Education And To Physical Differences, But Are Due In Great Part To The Basic Fact Of Segregation Which We Have Set Up In This Country And Which Warps And Twists The Lives Not Only Of Our Negro Population, But Sometimes Of Foreign Born Or Even Of Religious Groups.

What Counts, In The Long Run, Is Not What You Read; It Is What You Sift Through Your Own Mind; It Is The Ideas And Impressions That Are Aroused In You By Your Reading. It Is The Ideas Stirred In Your Own Mind, The Ideas Which Are A Reflection Of Your Own Thinking, Which Make You An Interesting Person

We Will Have To Want Peace, Want It Enough To Pay For It, Before It Becomes An Accepted Rule.

Staying Aloof Is Not A Solution, It Is A Cowardly Evasion.

Every Time You Meet A Situation You Think At The Time It Is An Impossibility And You Go Through The Tortures Of The Damned, Once You Have Met It And Lived Through It, You Find That Forever After You Are Freer Than You Were Before.