Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

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.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

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.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Your day was never bad. If you think you had a bad day, check your mindset!

Home is a little kingdom with rulers, laws, and subjects, each with a part to perform in order that life there shall be perfect.

The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well.

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.

EDGE WINS! EDGE WINS! EDGE WINS!

When all else fails, go for the ego.

The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains.