You must stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds
When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U. S. ], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.
I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.
I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.