I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.
Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.
[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Thank you, Tempest, for loving me when understanding was too hard. Thank you for understanding when loving me is impossible.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.
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