What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills... Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man