The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

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.

Love is waiting for you lifting to hand, open your heart, and accept it.

And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

You think we shouldn't anthropomorphize people?

The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.