I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

I believe there is only one race - the human race.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

One person can change the world.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.

Death is the dance of Life.

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

Truly successful individuals create both immediate and long-lasting influence attracting others to them.

Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.

Is it me, or is the government more concerned about its own tax headaches, than your tax headaches?

Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.