I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Peace was declared but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who says it.

The historic ascent of humanity taken as a whole may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature in society in man himself.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist and believed blind eternal fate I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.