We have to make the choice-every single day-to exemplify the truth, the respect, and the grace that we wish for this world.

The poor man and the beggar are two quite different classes: one commands respect, the other arouses anger.

There is no separate black path to power and fulfillment that dies not intersect white paths, and there is no separate white path to power and fulfillment, short of social disaster, that does not share that power with black aspirations for freedom and human dignity.

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

The Declaration of Independence proclaimed to a world, organized politically and spiritually around the concept of the inequality of man, that the dignity of human personality was inherent in man as a living being.

Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.