Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

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.

I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.

Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together.

This kid deserves anything good that happens to him. He's such a good guy. He's just the nicest human being you want to meet.

Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

The Gospel is not about going from bad to good, it's about going from dead to alive!

This moment is timeless, yet it is always new.

Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.

Quotations calcify into clichés.