When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

When people break off relationships, they break them both from the outside and from within. The external spoils because of circumstances, but the inner [inside] must not spoil.

IT'S ME!

Gender is like a Rubik’s Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve.

By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary.

In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.

We dream forever unless we awaken. We move from one dream to another, some beautiful, some we're the hero or the heroine, some horrible, some nonsensical, some boring.

I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts.

Faith doesn't always instantly deliver you, but it always carries you through.

With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that drives you to do it.

Jerkery knows no financial pedigree.