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.

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

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.

When you hate someone, in reality you are hating yourself.

... but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.

There are two masters, and you have to choose which master you are going to serve.

Wheels turning, the motorcycle’s roar grows steady, which, too, is a form of silence.

Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

I couldn't kill a fly.