Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.

The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn't got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.

Experiences shape experiences.

I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.