I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."

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.

Be obdurately determined to bring your courage to the world.

Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun.

Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

No art goes unmediated by other art.

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.