“Remember, this is your day and your world.”

“Its important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.”

“Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.”

“I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.”

“Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "Im a memb...”

“A voteless people is a hopeless people.”

“I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.”

“The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do a...”

“The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.”

“Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.”

“In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine.”

“What is the life of one person worth? Although the Supreme leader Kim Jong-un is not suicidal, life to him is relatively cheap, after all he had his half-brother murdered. The countries population ...”