Occupation: Activist Birth: October 8, 1941
Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of the control and use ….
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up..
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other..
We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful ….
Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's ch….
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it ….
You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning..
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever..
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, th….
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it..
The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up..
Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the ….
If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!.
If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail..
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate..
Your children need your presence more than your presents..
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories..
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change..
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up..
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together..
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division..