Archived Quotes

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.

We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference,

accepting the false pattern set up by

the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains

about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics:

freedom for slave owners.

All life is an experiment.

The more experiments you make the better.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Grief can take care if itself,

but to get the full value of a joy

you must have somebody to divide it with.

Coming together is a

beginning; keeping

together is progress;

working together is success.

Most people overestimate

what they can do in one year and underestimate

what they can do in ten years.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.

Don't lose faith.

Acting is about going into the space,

and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.

Success is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

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

was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

There will one day spring from the brain of science

a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities,

so absolutely terrifying, that even man,

the fighter,

who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death,

will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

I don’t do it for the money.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

We are what we pretend to be,

so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

The government solution to a problem is

usually as bad as the problem.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies

and programs by their intentions rather than their results.