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

- Kelly Miller

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

- Kelly Miller

Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that …

- Kelly Miller

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.

- Kelly Miller

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, …

- Kelly Miller

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

- Kelly Miller

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

- Kelly Miller

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

- Kelly Miller

In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

- Kelly Miller