Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.