You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Words and magic are two powerful forces that can change the world.

There is nothing wrong withdeciding that you don’t wantsomething, but if you do want it, go out and get it!

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.

It's in my wheelhouse to be creepy, as a person.

I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.

I am literally obsessed with Lena Dunham. She's, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day.

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.