We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Motivational • Overcoming • Perseverance
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Courage • Love • Trust
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Equality • Fairness • Justice
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Home • Human
In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
Education • Growth
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Diversity • Education • Parenting
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
Courage • Forgiveness • Love
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Beauty • Growth • Nature
All great achievements require time.
Motivational • Patience • Perseverance
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
Hope
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
Empowerment • Leadership • Responsibility
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
Courage • Empathy • Human
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
Awareness • Equality • Philosophy
