“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

A right delayed is a right denied.

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.

I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it – One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

The people who have impacted the world didn’t live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.

Statistics are history, and we gather them so that we can learn from history.”