Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

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.

The body of truth has a much larger data base than the conscience of lies.

There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those.

Christmas was an intentionally intentional decision of the greatest sort ever devised that would result in the greatest cost ever conceived

When the fox preaches look to your geese.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master

Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their appetite and create excitement, rather than make them upset.

You never get every job you want.

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.