"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"History's a resource."

"I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past."