But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.

He is trapped underground, suddenly and unexpectedly close to death, but still in control of his fate. "At that moment I put death in my head and decided I would live with it, " he says later.

If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day.