You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

God should always be in the first place in our lives

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

The main claim to fame, I think, of Bernie Sanders - who I've never met; I'm sure he's a pleasant guy - [is that] he's certainly not stupid.

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.

The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.