Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

I think there can be a collective leadership. Maybe some symbolize the struggle [for human's rights] a little more than others, but I think it's absolutely necessary for the leadership to be united in order to make the revolution effective.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.