I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying t…

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

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery. I have long since ceased to c…

Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate.

Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.

Je l'ai trop aime pour ne le point hair!