Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

The mind’s nature is worldly. If someone comes late, the mind will say ‘Why did you come at this wrong time?’ And this will create [bondage with] an iron shackle.

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one.

Institutions train men to be skilled

To a great mind, nothing is little.

If you really want people to like you, just stop lying.

The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with your friends.

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.