Category: Thought

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

If you treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

The destiny of the colored American . . . is the destiny of America.

I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.

The Bill of Rights isn’t for the prom queen. The Bill of Rights isn’t for the high-school quarterback. They’re gonna be treated fairly; they always do fine. The Bill of Rights is truly for those who might be unorthodox, who might have an unusual idea, who might not look like everybody else.

The Bill of Rights is to protect minorities, whether it’s the colour of your skin or the shade of your ideology.

Our intellectual and moral natures come into play only when we discriminate and decide for ourselves. Just so far as this discrimination and decision are taken away from us, we are deprived of the most essential element of our manhood and womanhood, and are turned into mere tools propelled from without.