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

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.

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.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting to be remembered.

Slavery was, in fact, a social system designed to destroy social capital among slaves and between slaves and freemen.

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

The best part of being a pro is being able to travel around the world. I have met so many incredible people and experienced different cultures all through sport.

We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.

I am not a supporter of buying a national team.

I implore those who love me to love my solitude.