Past, present, and future are momentary in nature!

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

It is only in the human race that females beautify themselves to attract males. Among all the other living beings, it is the other way around.

 It is my nature to be a friend of the friendless.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always pluck a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.