Kelly Miller Quotes

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from age to age.

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.