Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

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.

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.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

It is not the intellect but the wisdom of love that will reveal the beauty of life.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play - and I wasn’t a skater.

Even when I had nothing, I had everything. Because I love to compete.

America is the hope of the earth.