Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

They weren't true stories

Trust is built and maintained by many small actions over time.

The model of a composer.

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.

When people warn me against doing something once my mind is made up, I grow increasingly determined to try it.

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.