I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.

The Gottschalk was a fine weapon."You, " I said to it, "are on probation. You'd better impress me."Great. Now I was talking to guns.

First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak.

At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad.

You can tell a lot about a person by whether or not they're a transvestite.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.