“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.”

“His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.”

“It makes me ashamed as a man, as a citizen, as a Christian, to see the prejudice that is acted against the colored citizens of America because of his colour. As to the substance, the colored man is equal to the white man; he has a like intellect, the same blood courses in their veins; they are both equally the children of a common Father, who is in heaven.”

“In the world, America stands for — and works for — the right of all men to govern themselves through free, uninhibited elections. An ink bottle broken against an American Embassy, a fire set in an American library, an insult committed against our American flag, anywhere in the world, does far less injury to our country and our cause than the discriminatory denial of the right of any American citizen at home to vote on the basis of race or color.”

“The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom

Rebellious. Living.
Against the Elemental Crush.
A Song of Color
Blooming
For Deserving Eyes.
Blooming Gloriously
For its Self.”

“To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”

“Germany has no claims to make against the European nations except to live exactly like the others. … What we have in mind is a legal order of European national states with equal rights.”

“In former days the struggle for existence was chiefly a struggle against nature, today it is primarily a struggle against other human beings.”

“The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.”

“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.”