To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

How do you want us to tune the lens and our eyes are filled with tears

Amazing Donald Trump, your age and IQ are the same.

...I said I was sorry.” “Be sorry, then. Just be sorry somewhere else.

Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

My co-stars aren't bad actors, but they're no Zach Braff.