Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

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.

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.

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.

Being popular doesn't mean you're better than anyone else.

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

Words were different when they lived inside of you.

Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.

I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly

Do whatever you have to do as quickly as you can, so you can do whatever you WANT to do, for as long as you can.

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

Anyone who believes in a Jesus who condones abortion does not believe in the real Jesus, and therefore is not Christian.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

The lows are disappointing but that makes the highs much sweeterThat's what drives you to compete.