For me it's very important to express my thoughts, the pictures I carry inside of me, maybe because it's important to get them out.
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.
On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.
Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.
It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason.
Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life. . . , our way of looking at things, we will know ohw to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.