Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

I believe there is only one race - the human race.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

One person can change the world.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!

Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.