But we [Americans] are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he reco…

Ignorance is not bliss -- it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

Few men, indeed, are so mad that they do not know when they are doing wrong. But so avid is their pursuit of goods that wrongdoing has become an element of all…

There can be no racial animosity, because there are no races. The theorist and feeble thinkers string together and warm over the bookshelf races which the well…

I do not believe in races.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.