Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

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.

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

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

The Memory Of You Is Like A Drug To Me

It's not the endings that will haunt youBut the space where they should lie, The things that simply fadedWithout one final wave goodbye.

A guru is needed not to worship, but to direct you.

We have to use our freedoms and privileges to see what respite we can give to those less equipped to deal with their challenges.

One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.

I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

The majority of human conflict comes from people just feeling disrespected.

We only think about the difficult people and the horrible things that happen. That's what gets all the media attention.