The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

The challenge for each of us is to find out who we are and to live our way into our own calling.we do this by paying close attention to all aspects of life as they unfold in the present moment.

We are bound to expireEven metal which is sturdiest, Rusts.Even oxygen, the breath of life, Soon transpires.8/6/11 -Luis Medina

Make mistakes faster.

There are so many errors and misstatements in that list that I won't even begin to name them. Obama was right about one thing, though - Islam has always been a part of America's story.

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.

Republicans and nerds have so much in common -- they both live in fantasy worlds and have no idea how to relate to women.

When you get to a higher level of consciousness, though, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else...