Alphabet Quotes

If we are not free,

no one will respect us.

Wishing to be friends

is quick work,

but friendship is a slow

ripening fruit.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

The object of oratory

alone in not truth,

but persuasion.

When I was a boy of fourteen,

my father was so ignorant

I could hardly stand to have the old man around.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Never let success get to your head,

and never let failure get to your heart.

God writes the Gospel not

in the Bible alone, but

also on trees, and in the

flowers and clouds and stars.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

Breathe.

Let go.

And remind yourself that this very moment,

is the only one you know you have for sure.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal'

was of no practical use in effecting our separation from

Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that,

but for future use.

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

Good is positive.

Evil is merely privative,

not absolute: it is like cold,

which is the privation of heat.

All evil is so much death or nonentity.

Benevolence is absolute and real.

So much benevolence as a man hath,

so much life hath he.

If I had been white with the things I did,

they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

Even people who believe they deserve,

to be happy and have nice things often,

don't feel worthy once they have them.

There is only one corner of the universe

you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I very rarely think in words at all.

A thought comes,

and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Many a small thing has been made large

by the right kind of advertising.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.