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Ella Baker: The best country...

Ella Baker: The best country...

The best country in the world, you hear them say. I guess it may be. I haven't lived anywhere else. But it's not good...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: Morality cannot be...

Martin Luther King, Jr: Morality cannot be...

Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can...

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Barbara Deming: Think first of...

Barbara Deming: Think first of...

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's...

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Ralph Abernathy: I'm sick and...

Ralph Abernathy: I'm sick and...

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous...

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Siddha Nagarjuna: This body, full...

Siddha Nagarjuna: This body, full...

This body, full of faults,
Has yet one great quality:
Whatever it encounters in this temporal life
Depends...

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Francois de Salignac Fenelon: All earthly delights...

Francois de Salignac Fenelon: All earthly delights...

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than...

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Theodore Parker: There is what...

Theodore Parker: There is what...

There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a...

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Aristotle: The true end...

Aristotle: The true end...

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Maria Weston Chapman: Confusion has seized...

Maria Weston Chapman: Confusion has seized...

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong,
The women have leaped from their spheres,
And, instead of...

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Sojourner Truth: I am glad...

Sojourner Truth: I am glad...

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring I...

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Fannie Lou Hamer: I'm sick and...

Fannie Lou Hamer: I'm sick and...

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed....

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: You have to...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: You have to...

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go . . . Don't ever forget that you play with your...

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Sugar Ray Robinson: I've always believed...

Sugar Ray Robinson: I've always believed...

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

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George Foreman: My mother was...

George Foreman: My mother was...

My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.

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Bobby Knight: I told him...

Bobby Knight: I told him...

I told him to take a picture of his testicles so he'd have something to remember them by if he ever took another shot...

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Al Unser, Jr: Besides winning, [the...

Al Unser, Jr: Besides winning, [the...

Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the...

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Mario Andretti: If everything's under...

Mario Andretti: If everything's under...

If everything's under control, you're going too slow

Source: From Clint's Master...

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Satchel Paige: I never threw...

Satchel Paige: I never threw...

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I tossed one that ain't never been seen by this...

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Dizzy Dean: The doctors X-rayed...

Dizzy Dean: The doctors X-rayed...

The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.

Source: After being hit on the head...

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Pat Riley: You prove your...

Pat Riley: You prove your...

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Source: In The...

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