Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

It's not the name they call you, it's the name you answer to.

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

History will treat me right.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works.

If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?

Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.

Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world.

To me, being Latin is about more than your looks - it's how you're brought up.

I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.

I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.

We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks.