If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

CHOAM is business and business follows profits.

Perhaps stars were supposed to be viewed from the ground.

I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed.

Even in the wood, there was a right road and a wrong one. All the most terrifying fairy tales inevitably began with some foolish innocent (or two) straying from the path. Then anything might happen.

When I know that I have played as well as I can. It doesn't matter so much whether I have won or lost. But being completely satisfied with myself? That's something that never really happens to me.

It is quite clear, however, that there won't be any real changes with the current clan structure having seized power in the course of the Karabakh conflict.

By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.

You have to be tougher. You have to learn the way to beat your path through, to make yourself felt, and make yourself necessary.

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.