Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire to be free, and set me thinking of plans to gain my freedom.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
we are the ones we have been waiting for
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
I am the dream and the hope of the slave
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
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