My hopes were never brighter than now.

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.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Don’t compare yourself with others. You are one of a kind!

Dreaming's great as long as you wake up now and again

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules!

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect.

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

There are things you don't want to know you can do