My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.

Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.

I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.

Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.