You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.

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.

Yours(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

The master of your body did not run off and leave you masterless.

It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

fretting at trouble only doubles it.

If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight.

People only respond to fear.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.