A civilization is always judged in its decline.

- Melvin B. Tolson

Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.

- Melvin B. Tolson

Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderne…

- Melvin B. Tolson

The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

- Melvin B. Tolson

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

- Melvin B. Tolson