"Without courage we cannot practice any other..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“People will never forget how you made them feel.”

“If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.”

“If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.”

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.”

“Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.”

“O, the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!”

“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”

“Let goodness go with the doing.”

“Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.”