During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

Give light, and people will find the way...

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

As I walk I mediate on the word of God. It comforts me.

You have an inbuilt goodness. Why should you allow some poisonous elements to destroy that goodness? Protect your goodness by any means. Stay away from the toxic people.

Good artists copy

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

I'm personally not a Muhammad Ali fan.

Climate change is such a consequential crisis to everybody in the world.

I want people to learn what democracy means.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.