Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the ‚sense of utter irresponsibility‘ shown by the demonstrators.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

A home without books is a body without soul.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.