I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character give him power.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.