The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
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.
As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say . . . as long as he looks to white folks for approval . . . then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about.
There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.
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.
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'
Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
I do consider myself part of black history.
Let us not become the evil that we deplore.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
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