The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

If a person is not free, his right is restricted.

What is man but his passion?

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

My dad used to say 'Always fight fire with fire,' which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

I could have screamed, but I didn’t. I could have fought, but I didn’t. I just lay there and let it happen, watching the winter-white sky go gray above me.

Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear

For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul.