When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Give me an enthusiastic, purpose-oriented person and I will give a successful future leader.

It is greed that makes us human as it could be for good or bad.

Our human resources as marshalled by the will were not sufficient they failed utterly.... Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities.

When you leave a pimp, you leave with nothing.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Life: I'll never understand it.

Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters.

As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!