From the moment I take office, I will stand up to the special interests and stand with hardworking families so that we can give America back its future and its ideals.
The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.
Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.
I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. Having had so many outstanding legal successes, it definitely seemed to have oriented its thinking in the direction that the way to achieve was through the courts.
To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.
The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.