I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

Don’t promise when you’re happy, don’t reply when you’re angry, and don’t decide when you’re sad.

Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities

For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses.

Everything has to be done for a reason, and everything has to be done to make sense in terms of running a proper business today, and it's not just about the food.

[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you're sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o'clock at the latest, I'm in bed.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

I'm so proud to be part of Harry Potter and even prouder to be representing the gingers.