The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.

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.

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

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.

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.

The road to success is always under construction

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!

I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.

I like to get up in the morning and see people.

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.

I think listeners are hungry to hear quality.

Even if you don't have anything, even if you've got a quarter in your pocket, to share with someone else who has nothing really helps.

I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't even write the songs, but the band was named after me.