I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

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.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

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

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

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