Quotes on African American

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.