At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

To see your inner-self, close your eyes and feel.

My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away as long as I'm not enjoying it.

If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.

[Fan In Lobby from Stardust Memories] that was just after The Dain Curse. My other big uncredited role from back then.

Civilization has its roots in the soil.

Nobody on the road. Nobody on the beach. I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

The future of Africa lies not with external actors but within Africa itself. The future of Africa lies here in Africa.

I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days.