“Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.”

You can’t have capitalism without racism.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.

How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.

Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.

I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.

When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

Until we reach equality in education, we can’t reach equality in the larger society.

Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.

I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor – not a celebrity.