The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

I could have coached better.

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

If you give people really big jobs to the point that they're scared, they have way more fun and they improve their game much faster.

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

He - A.J.[Muste] never got much credit, never got much attention. For example, I wrote a biography of him and nobody ever heard of it.