A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

Power is the flower of organization.

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind’s grandiose sense of greatness.

I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one.

I want to talk about jobs, the economy, foreclosures. I want to talk about energy prices.

love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Cool! Now I can steal some rich old coot's Ferrari and go fishing for marlin with the same piece of jewelry.

There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.

And the crowd often betrayed the people