There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

Once we were young, now we are adult.

Push to achieve your dreams. Don't let anyone push you out of dreamland.

It's time for you to break away from the person that is breaking you

Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.

Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.

A good dog is one of the best things of all to be.

There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk?

I just want to be known for what I do, not who I know.

We can feel sorry for ourselves or we can put the work boots on and understand the situation and the reality of it all.