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

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.

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

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.

I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.

It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

We must be headlights and not taillights.

Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

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.

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I’m gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.