If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed

I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.

Don't give up! Don't give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

Everything happens for a reason. Just be patient.

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!

Boys don't cry-or at least that's what everybody's supposed to believe.

The more you give, the more your heart is filled. Love is a never ending stream.

Look, when I got in trouble in school I got in trouble at home. Now when kids get in trouble at school, the teacher gets in trouble. So the families are important.