Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

It's time for America to get right.

You have to be skillful in your time management to be effective in life

That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours--

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error

I don't know what brings you up here, but to me the town looks prettier and the people look nicer and even the worst of them look almost kind.

Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

If you are extremely generous, greed will run away.

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Each time I had an internship to do or an essay to write, I would always do it in the field of cinema. Nobody in my family worked in film and nobody could understand it.