It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
Freedom is never given; it is won.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts – good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
The only way to deal with this life meaningfully is to find one's passion and purpose, and then to invest one's whole being into it.
You are your best thing.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.