The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.

Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe.

If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.