Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

Hope will never be silent.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

Hope is never silent.

We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

Its better to hold a book between your Fingers than to Hold a Cigarette.

What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

I don't really step out the house trying to make a fashion statement. I step out the house making sure I'm comfortable.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.

You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.

Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain.