Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
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.
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
we are the ones we have been waiting for
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.
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.
Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
I am the dream and the hope of the slave
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
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