Occupation: Activist Birth: October 8, 1941
When everyone is included, everyone wins..
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 ….
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..
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together..
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….
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change..
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 ….
If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail..
Your children need your presence more than your presents..
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 ….
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division..
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other..
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, th….
If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!.
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 ….
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever..
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up..
You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning..
The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up..
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it..
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up..