We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.