We need to do more than just what is right. We need to join together and right what is wrong.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.

You can't believe one thing and do another. What you believe and what you do are the same thing.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.

My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

With what sovereignty we have retained, we choose to decide for ourselves our needs in accordance with our values, exerting our rights of empowerment under those articles of the treaties.

What I want to know is how you go on when you look aroundand don’t see anywhere you want to go without the only personyou can’t have.

If a path in your life leaves you in a place where you feel lost and alone, may you follow your heart and souluntil you feel at home.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

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. . .

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

Without looking through the window, you can see Heaven's Way.

The chance to love and be loved exists no matter who or where you are.

Mandela? He lasted 27 years in prison but he never could've done 30.

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside- this is in my heart, this is how I feel.