“Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.”

“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.”

“If you can't convince them, confuse them.”

“I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.”

“The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.”

“The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.”

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”

“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of h...”

“Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhrt mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.”

“Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”

“The only honest way to approach the question of whiteness and blackness is to start by accepting that these are arbitrary categories that were invented in the 17th and 18th century in order to just...”

“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be ...”

“It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.”

“The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.”

“The possibility for such collective healing holds tremendous transformative power that remains as yet untapped. It is difficult for people to imagine the freedom and energy that would be released i...”