“If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about. — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Never take tiny dreams for granted. They contain giant success stories.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the only things preventing your dreams from becoming realities is the long time it is taking you to start.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“A leader’s cross is the temporal pain they go through and his crown is the permanent gain when at last victory is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Most times, the leader’s ornament isn’t the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
“Ballot papers don’t determine who leads; they determine who takes which position. As to whether that person occupying the position will lead… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it's important to remember that down through the centuries, people motivated… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
“The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white people coming together, Jews coming together,… — Jonathan Anthony Burkett Copy Share Image
“You can't leave the show," King told Nichols. "We are there because you are there." Black people have been imagined in the… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Judge Carter sat in stony silence, completely unmoved. At the end of the trial, he pronounced King guilty of conspiracy to violate… — Danielle L. McGuire Copy Share Image
“We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled… — Robert F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“HE remembered looking "agape" in his encyclopedia volume after he read Dr. King's speech in the DEFENDER. The newspaper ran the address… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It’s the idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion.… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
“Rev. [Martin Luther] King continued, chanting, singing his prophetic litany. We were one people, indivisible in the sight of God, responsible to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Watch out; success will only arrive when your action are strong enough to attract them.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Whatever you are waiting for won’t come to you; you have to go for it.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image