I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

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.

She's cuckoo, laying her egg in my nest.

Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.

So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.

Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.