I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

If you don't know where you come from, it's difficult to determine where you are.- It's even more difficult to plan where you are going.

'I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please.' 'Sir, we don't serve negroes here.' 'Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.'

It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.

Everything has changed and nothing has changed.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

You gotsta love all God's children!

In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S, ' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection.

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow...

If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.

The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed.

WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS OF THE NATION, NOT AS WOMEN...THIS WAS A PEOPLE'S WAR, AND EVERYONE WAS IN IT.

I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something