I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.

We need to reinvent food at Starbucks. Less could be more.

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

We do a stewardship series every Sunday...at offering time.

Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

We will defend our victory through armed struggle. We will have to do that.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.