Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it.Psalms, 55:12

The time has come for nations to sell their patriotism and buy wisdom.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

I bartended for a catering company for two or three years...

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

I've got a lot of ham in me.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.