Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

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.

I wanted her to notice me, to pay attention to me. It was an irrational desire, one I‘d never experienced before.

Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

She was afraid you'd freak out? Start seeing demons in the White House?

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

I feel that bands can do whatever they want, after all, they own themselves and the art/music they create.

They that die by famine die by inches.