The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

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.

Realism is knowing fantasy and reality intersect constantly. Realism is living with the awareness that every act changes the world.

Tears are not thorns.

Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. “It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.

We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?

I love very much the night after every fashion show when I have all those invitations to parties and I stay quiet at home by myself.

Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn't have to be forced. It's that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs.

I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.