When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.

Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.