Freedom is never given; it is won.

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.

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

Encouragement activates the strength of sacred being.

Dare to try again when you failure.

Sometimes ... God answers our prayers in the way our parents do who reply to the pleas of their children with "Not just now" or "I'll have to think about that for a little while."

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

I know that I wasn't bred to be an Olympian. I didn't start running until high school, and I just stumbled upon to.

The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.