QUOTES
America
is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture,
the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors,
many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
Both
tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get
you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Deliberation
and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Hold
your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes,
but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
I
am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds.
As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
In
politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Leadership
has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Never
look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
No
one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government,
no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender
your dreams.
Our
dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater
than pushed by our memories.
Our
flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black
and white-and we're all precious in God's sight.
Time
is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change
things.
We've
removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Your
children need your presence more than your presents.
“If
my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
“Leadership cannot
just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.”
“It is time for us
to turn to each other, not on each other”
“The
burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the
glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.”
“At the end of the
day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.”
if
whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people
who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.
Peace
is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence,
not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than
with saving face.
I
preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
The
trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that
is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the
guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted
idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding
nonviolence.
