“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”

“If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.”

“We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.”

“Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat”

“I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.”

“[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.”

“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”