We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned….That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.