You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

I shall write peace upon your wings, and you shall fly around the worldso that children will no longer haveto die this way.

Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.

It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn't know they had a caddie division.

Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.

The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads

Generosity is only benevolence in practice.