Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen.

Wisdom is a reliable companion.

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

Donald Trump's a great fighter.

When another comedian has a lousy show, I'm the first one to admit it.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

A magnificent restoration awaits us. Christ comes in judgment; then restoration.

Death doesn't frighten me.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.