This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

Change is fundamentally in the hands of People Cause there is no Greater Alternative to People's Awakening

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

Life is full of games. Be a proactive player. Most importantly, know who is throwing at you, what and why. When you do, life becomes fun...

When adults wage war, children perish.

How like they are to human things!

I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus - we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products.