I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply inside. I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself inwardly to be.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

I believe there is only one race - the human race.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

One person can change the world.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

The innermost essence of my being...is fearless; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge.

I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'.

Wherever you go, God be with you.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

I overthink a lot of things.

Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.

Pain is not an evolutionary error.

... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?