Einstein on the Struggle for Human Rights

The struggle for human rights is an eternal struggle in which a final victory can never be won. But to tire in that struggle would mean the ruin of society.

from a tape-recorded address to the Decalogue Society of Chicago, February 20, 1954, as cited in Einstein on Race and Racism by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor

Princeton provided a safe location for Einstein -- away from Germany -- but it was not without its racial injustices. At that time. the university limited the number of Jewish students it would accept, and there were only two Jewish faculty members. African-Americans couldn't attend at all. Einstein became aware of these discriminations and set about to battle not only anti-Semitism, but all racism.

from Albert Einstein: The Miracle Mind by Tabatha Yeatts