"I will not take "but" for an..." - Quote by Langston Hughes

“Violent anger makes me physically ill.”

“Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.”

“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”

“I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.”

“I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.”

“Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there.”

“My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.”

“Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”

“I've got my teeth into him, and I'm not going to let go.”