For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Sout….

Man is what his dreams are..

It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act o….

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication..

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the con….

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture..

It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your ….

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done..

Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the pub….

You have the ability, now apply yourself..

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream..

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulf….

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty p….

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself..

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along….

The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but….

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set..

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other..

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be..

I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive..

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front..