“Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.”

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.

Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It’s not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.

Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.

You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.

I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.

You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.

I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.

I say to people today, ‘You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.

Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.

Races don’t fall in love, genders don’t fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.

Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.

Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

You can’t let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.