It's not the name they call you, it's the name you answer to.

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.

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?

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

how can i everbreathe normally againafter having been cradledby the kind of sorrowso silent, that it nourishesafter having been sweptby the kind of joyso absolute, that it wounds.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Candor is a compliment

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning.

I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.

America was built on her citizens.

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.