He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.