What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

(J)oy deserves always more.

If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.

The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.

Coffee first. Schemes later.

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.