Situations can change; people can change. Be the first to seek to bring good. Do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it with good.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

We stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

The comfortable, the entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change in the status quo.

Negroes hold only one key to the double lock of peaceful change. The other is in the hands of the white community.