“We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.”

When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.

We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society.

I believe that we have to come together, and we have to rely on the goodness of each other.

I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.

I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that’s a shame.

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.

My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.

The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry’s class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach us all: Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.

I want to inspire kids.

That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.

You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened – good, bad, ugly, no matter what – I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.

We must absolutely take care of one another.

We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.

Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.

Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.