You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself...worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.