Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset

Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one else has taken...yet.

If we want people to accept us as we are, then we should accord the same courtesy to them

Prayer is a heart exercise. It’s an act of communicating with God about what’s most important and pressing in your life.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone else.