I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

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.

This is a mournful discovery.1)Those who agree with you are insane2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

If you want it, work for it.

Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real.

She knew in her heart that to be without optimism that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain was a fatal flaw the seed of death.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

We don't get to decide who God is.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

If you want to love God better, hate sin more.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.