I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.

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?

Nothing makes a person desire improvement like failure

We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly...

Ever wonder what it's like to walk in another persons shoes? Try it sometime. Then perhaps you will understand the definition of experience.

If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

Money was their God; work their religion.

Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.