I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

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.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

One doesn't need to be taught fear when one is the hunted.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.