The Test Of A Civilization Is In

Nothing Is Menial Where There Is Love.

The Lack Of Emotional Security Of Our American Young People Is Due, I Believe, To Their Isolation From The Larger Family Unit. No Two People - No Mere Father And Mother - As I Have Often Said, Are Enough To Provide Emotional Security For A Child. He Needs To Feel Himself One In A World Of Kinfolk, Persons Of Variety In Age And Temperament, And Yet Allied To Himself By An Indissoluble Bond Which He Cannot Break If He Could, For Nature Has Welded Him Into It Before He Was Born.

Upon The Profound Discontent Of The Young In Every Country Do I Set My Faith. I Beg You, The Young, To Be Discontented. I Pray That You May Rebel Against What Is Wrong, Not With Feeble Negative Complaining But With Strong Positive Assertion Of What Is Right For All Humanity.

It Is Not Healthy When A Nation Lives Within A Nation, As Colored Americans Are Living Inside America. A Nation Cannot Live Confident Of Its Tomorrow If Its Refugees Are Among Its Own Citizens.

When We Define Democracy Now It Must Still Be As A Thing Hoped For But Not Seen.