Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy... In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.