With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

It's time for America to get right.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

My work should be seen as poetry.

What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.

Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

My child has done nothing wrong apart from being born to a mother like me

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

I am every age, up to my own.

A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.