Alan Keyes - The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.
Langston Hughes - I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.
Frederick Douglass - Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
Malcom X - You can’t separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Desmond Tutu - My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Kevin Bales - Slavery is theft—theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.
Harriet Tubman - I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
John Quincy Adams - Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
Haye Turner - My daddy told me that they whooped and hollered and bored holes in trees with augers and stopped it up with [gun] powder and light and that would be their blast for the celebration.
James Baldwin - If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.
Martin Luther King Jr. - What matters is not how long you live…but how you live
Martin Luther King Jr. - Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Steve Maraboli - When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.
Paulo Coelho - One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.
Jim Ryun - Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Marty Rubin - Every morning a new sun greets us, and our new life begins.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Light tomorrow with today.
Denise Brennan-Nelson - Someday is not a day of the week.
Bernard Williams - There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
John Wooden - Make today your masterpiece.
Paul Henderson - I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over, so I refuse to have a bad day.
E. B. White - I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
Gina Rodriguez - Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat: “Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.
Joyce Meyers - God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.
Mahatma Gandhi - Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
George Washington Carver - Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
Mary Oliver - It is a serious thing – just to be alive – on this fresh morning – in this broken world.
D.L. Hughley - No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
Robert Orben - Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
George Lorimer - You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to bed with satisfaction.
Lou Holtz - Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.
Dorothy Parker - Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
Harry Winston - People will stare. Make it worth their while.
Dolly Parton - I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs - I am proud that I found the courage to deal the initial blow to the hydra of public contempt.
River Phoenix - It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else’s sexuality. It’s like telling someone else how to clean their house.
Howard Dean - From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
Sylvia Rivera - We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are.
Elizabeth Gilbert - To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
D. L. Hughley - No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning
Mark Twain - Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
John Wooden - Make each day your masterpiece.
Elle Luna - Whether the day is for writing, designing, or painting, the consistent practice of a morning routine is the doorway into it all.
Dalai Lama - Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.
Spencer Johnson - In one minute, you can change your attitude, and in that minute, you can change your entire day.
Sunday Adelaja - Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning.
Zig Ziglar - You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Robert Kiyosaki - Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.