8 Quotes by E. Merrill Root

Nothing, indeed, is more symptomatic of our modern lack of logic than our consciousness of the futility of mere material affluence in itself, and at the same time our pathetic belief that the salvation of the “poor” is to lift them into affluence!

Only the wit and the hard work and will of individual men, black men and white men, can from wreck and sediment create a fairer world.

Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing – and does it well.

We need a renaissance of wonder.

Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.

Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.