Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

Power is the flower of organization.

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

I’ve learned to turn life’s setbacks into opportunities for creation.

my heart woke me crying last nighthow can i help i beggedmy heart said write the book

As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.

Most people overestimate what they can do in a month and underestimate what they can do in an hour.

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

I've always been in a rebel.

Reason is the slave of passion.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.