You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you.
We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.
I’m not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.
To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
He was my cream, and I was his coffee – And when you poured us together, it was something.
I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.
I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.
All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.
We’ve got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what’s the point of waging war on Hitler?