The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.

Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

Study the Bible, there God is the teacher.

Excessive religiosity is killing so many religious people knowingly or unknowingly

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,

Jesus was born on a bank holiday and died on a bank holiday. We can therefore assume that when he returns again it will also be on a bank holiday.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

The moment you enter into the world of words you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence.