In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.

A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.

The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

Gladness comes from God.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it shor

During Life, we cultivate relationships by spending days with others.During eternity, we cultivate relationships by spending lifetimes with others.

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me.

Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

The Republicans can't go after Donald Trump where I think he needs to be criticized.

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.