Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

oh love, doesn’t the fact that the world is so big, laid out like ripe fruitmake you want to stay?

We tend to forget that everything has an ending, so enjoy it while you can still see it around you.

Too bad he was officially the enemy.

There were cracked head stones, dead flowers and weeds coming through the ground. Even the trees looked lifeless. --The Body By the Tree

I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.

I'm glad for the equaled record. However, the final numbers really count.

If you got a booty, you're going to dance to disco, funk, you know, whatever's going on. Funk is going to be involved in it.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

Nature is always hinting at us.