if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

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.

Leave the comfort of your dark cocoon... Allow your imagination to take flight. Embrace those marvelous magical wings and soar!

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

Donald Trump showed his birth certificate to reporters. Who cares about his birth certificate? I want to know if that thing on his head has had its vaccinations.

I'm the best you can get. Have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out from your TV set!

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

Everything that is possible demands to exist.

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

I cheat my boys every chance I get, I want to make 'em sharp.

My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.