Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .

Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.

Without an abundance of hope and happiness, it will be difficult to accumulate an abundance of wealth.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.

The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life

God forgives us and remembers our sin no more; therefore, stop remembering what God has forgotten.

I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.

A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.

Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.