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

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.

History will treat me right.

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?

Vulnerability along with a sense of humility are the purest forms of strength.

This life you cry up so much is what I wanted to extinguish by suicide, whereas my dream, my dream—oh, it has revealed to me a great, new, regenerated intensity of life!

Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

I don't get to go home as much as I used to, which is a shame. But I don't mind because my mum moved over to London to look after me. I rented her a house just around the corner.

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

I actually went to university.

I live in a house that's incredibly old, and it's typical that part of it is slightly in the ground. It's very earthed. It's almost like living in a hobbit house.

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.

I take the Bible literally, but not seriously.

We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown.