I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.

Remember, this is your day and your world.

It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

I made the decision. I want you more than I want heaven, more than I want to be an angel. I love you more than who I was created to be.

Being afraid of things going wrong, doesn't help them go right.

The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith.