As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.

What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

You have authority over every storm you can sleep in

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

I am proud to stand with hardworking families all over Toledo, Ohio and America who should have the same chance that I did to share in the American dream, which should be big enough for everybody.

Happy is the Heart that still feels Pain

Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers.

Ladakh's Prakash, Paryavaran, Paryatan are a strength for both J&K and India.