Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Drink deep the cup of life

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China's influence is bound to rise.

We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

I do not teach. I relate.

On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.

You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.