“Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.”

You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.

Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

Every single vote is precious.

We never gave up. We didn’t get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.

We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.

I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

By the force of our demands, our determination, and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them together in the image of God and democracy

You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.

It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.

We cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.

I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.

I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

You were so gentle with my messy burdens, my tender wounds and the cracks in my broken soul that I became gentle with them, too.

I wait and wait and wait and god I am sick of waiting. To not see your face anymore. To not know the burden that belongs to you. To not imagine the window I looked through the night I found out.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn’t willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.