| "A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever." |
| "America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth." |
| "At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division" |
| "Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change" |
| "Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy" |
| "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it." |
| "If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose" |
| "In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down" |
| "In politics, an organized minority is a political majority." |
| "It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other" |
| "Keep hope alive!
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| "Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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| "No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams" |
| "Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories" |
| "Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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| "We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up" |
| "When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through." |
| "When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
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| "Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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