Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

Men may change their climate but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Negroes - Sweet and docile Meek humble and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as in our minds names do in the course of a year or two.

We have a powerful potential in out youth and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness so that one may be happy in the interim.

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.