“We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.”

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

“I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

“In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”

“In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.”

“It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.”

“In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls--with the great outside world. No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world. In meeting men, in many places, I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least.”