I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

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

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

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

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

I had to get a second passport in a hurry.