Quotes to inspire and reflect

Feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

Sailin’ ‘round the world in a dirty gondola,

Every pleasures got an edge of pain, pay for your ticket and don't complain.

People don't do what they believe in, they just do what's most convenient, then they repent.

All the money you make will never buy back your soul.

Charity is supposed to cover up for a multitude of sins.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them

He not busy being born is busy dying.

If the negro knows enough to fight for his country he knows enough to vote; if he knows enough to pay taxes for the support of the government, he knows enough to vote; if he knows as much when sober, as an Irishman knows when drunk, he knows enough to vote.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky

All great qualities are never found in any one man or in any one race. The whole of humanity, like the whole of everything else, is ever greater than a part. Men only know themselves by knowing others, and contact is essential to this knowledge.

No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty.

Though they come as the waves come, we shall be all the stronger if we receive them as friends and give them a reason for loving our country and our institutions.

If nothing is expected of a people, that people will find it difficult to contradict that expectation.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

The Constitution itself. Its language is 'we the people'. Not we the white people, not even we the citizens, not we the privileged class, not we the high, not we the low, but we the people.

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery

The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.

We're not trying to entertain the critics … I'll take my chances with the public.

Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised.

I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.

Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Girls bored me, they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.

I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.