History will treat me right.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

It's not the name they call you, it's the name you answer to.

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

Faith has wings.

It's one thing to stick to your guns. It's quite another to hold those guns to the heads of your citizens.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.

It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.

A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.

As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.