Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

You'll know you're doing something right if you feel you don't know what you're doing... if you know what you are doing, you are doing it right- but you might just repeating yourself...

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

Your brain is a forest, And the nerves are trees.When the branches touch, Snaps jumps between the leaves.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.

Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

All it takes is for one person to say you’re ugly, and you’re like, I guess I’m ugly. And that was it.

I guess destiny isn't the path chosen for us, but the path we chose for ourselves.