"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy."

"Traditions that were once vital, sincere and splendid and which are now merely empty formulae, break away from both and produce something vital, connected with the soil, something essentially Indian."

"The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequ…"

"When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? When is that equality of influence which o…"

"I have the Greensburg project, which is rebuilding an entire city in Kansas. I'm continuing to work with outreach programs. The most profound lesson I've learned in all of this work is that people don…"