When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.

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.