Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

The best thing about my protest has been to see how more and more people have been coming and getting involved.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

No great thing is created suddenly.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I am such a political person.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

They say miracles are past.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.