“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.”

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Africa will write its own history, and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.