10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

I don't like to lose.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task,

but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if

they were great and noble.

Science may have found a cure for most evils;

but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all

the apathy of human beings.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Literature is my Utopia.

All the world is full of suffering.

It is also full of overcoming.

Never bend your head.

Always hold it high.

Look the world straight in the eye.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than

walking alone in the light.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Why do you all push us around?

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing

was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

I have been refused entrance on the buses because

I would not pay my fare at the front

and go around to the rear door to enter.

That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point

where the white passengers would start occupying.

I had felt for a long time that,

if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit,

that I would refuse to do so.

It was not pre arranged.

It just happened that the driver made a demand

and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand.

I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit,

and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free,

I was not alone.

There were many others who felt the same way.

As far back as I can remember,

I knew there was something wrong with our way of life

when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

I'm tired of being treated like a second

class citizen.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free...

so other people would be also free.