The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Control healthcare and you control the people

Never let a crisis go to waste

History is a relay of revolutions.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

Life is beautiful but it’s also brief. It doesn’t matter how long you live. What matters is how well you live.

Everything you mean to me, I can't put into words, because when you're as perfect as you, no amount of words will do.

We are all endowed with wealth of time equally

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you, sir.

Progress not perfection.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman.'

Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.