“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.