Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.