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

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

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

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

One and God make a majority.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

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

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.