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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

I don’t owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

Whatever I do, it’s my business. It’s not my job to parent America.