If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

We can make America what America must become.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.