Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.