Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
Everybody is determined by his own experience.
Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.
Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
The man with courage is a majority.
I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King recognized was the greatest step for society was that short step into the voting booth. If we are to be true to their courage and conviction, we must make that short step as easy as possible. Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer floats bright and wet From trees that are their own sunset, Spring, summer, autumn I come here, And what is there to fear? And yet I never lose the feeling That someone else behind is stealing Or else in front has disappeared; Though nothing I have seen or heard, Makes me still walk beneath these boughs With cautious step as in a haunted house.
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
To find people who don't want anything is rare.
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.
Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
I tried. But not everybody thought so.
My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
