I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.

When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.

I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

... maybe it is only by banging our heads against it that we can bring this accursed wall down.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

The wall must go.