The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack

Some people are boys longer than others.

The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.

We strive always to have a beginner's mind.

And it takes so much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.