Remember, this is your day and your world.

It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.

I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things.

If you were really humble you would be great, because humility would never squander the magnificent gift of life.

The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind.

Cigars are no safe alternative act.

So people have been hurting, and I understand that, and it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me we'd be in a worldwide depression.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

I don't think the Democrats need a silver bullet.

I believe we all share a responsibility to build a healthier, more just and prosperous world.

We work super hard to not have to work

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.