Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Dealing with depression isn't about trying to run away from the feeling

Every day I give you my heart. At the end of the year, there are hundreds of hearts, which I will give to you. Heart to heart only for you, and even more hearts - in a heartless time.

I've never dealt with the Russian government, I've never had a relationship with the Russian government.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word.

June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.