The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.

As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

The best KISS concert I've ever been to was…my wedding.

More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager.

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.