As the term of my relief from this place [Washington, D.C.] approaches, it's drudgery becomes more nauseating and intolerable, and... my impatience to be with you at Monticello increases daily.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Divide and conquer--that's what they try to do to any group trying to make social change. I call it D&C. Black people are supposed... to turn against Puerto Ricans. Women are supposed to turn against their mothers and mothers-in-law. We're all supposed to compete with each other for the favors of the ruling class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look a here people, listen to me, Don't try to find no home in Washington, D.C.... Lord, it's a bourgeois town, it's a bourgeois town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is a much newer experiment in human living, one with moral concerns at its core. In this respect it differs from Europe, w...hich has preferred sophistication and worldly wisdom to "righteousness," and resembles China, which saw the universe itself as essentially a moral order. However materialistic Americans may be in their economic pursuits, their ceremonies emphasize the material far less than European societies have. America has imposing official architecture. Washington, D.C., boasts a radial baroque stateliness. Yet one of its most important buildings, the White House, is a modest dwelling, its scale far smaller than that of the palaces of Europe and Asia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin... but by the content of their character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages of our schools, our churches and ...the mingling of our social life, to ask over and over again for so simple a thing as that "we, the people," should mean women as well as men; that our Constitution should mean exactly what it says?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We enunciate a grand principle, then we are timid and begin restricting its application. We are a nation of infidels to principle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White... House--with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »