One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

Here’s the inevitable truth: our hearts will always find something to worship, and that will motivate how we live.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.

We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma.

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.

Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.