God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.

Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

You will only be satisfied only when you are working

We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

A woman knows a skirt-chaser.

Men build society and society builds men.

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

Doing of good is the best temple ever built!

When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.