The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.

Life is not a spectator sport.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

I'm not goin' anywhere, I'm right here!

I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We are demanding that we just be given the things that are rightfully ours and that we're not looking for anything else.

A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.