Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

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People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it ― Howard Newton

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The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

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Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

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There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can’t. What you’ve got to do is turn about and say ‘Watch me’. -Bryce Harper

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There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.

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Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.

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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

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