“The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.

It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.

There’s a long history of all kinds of cop films… But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

We need to read history from the source.

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.

A women’s place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that’s why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.