I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.
The NAACP is a wonderful organization. . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?
Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here. ' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
My mom is one of those people that you feel honored to meet. And no matter who you are, you fall in love with her because she is spiritual, she's inspiring, she's strong, she's funny, she's creative, she's talented. . . she's everything that I want to be.
It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to seek for peace in Her maternal goodness; showing that the Catholic Church has always, and with justice, put all her hope and trust in the Mother of God. And truly the Immaculate Virgin, chosen to be the Mother of God and thereby associated with Him in the work of man's salvation, has a favour and power with Her Son greater than any human or angelic creature has ever obtained, or ever can gain
[America] will stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and a lasting peace.
I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U. S. ] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.