Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

Power is the flower of organization.

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

I try to keep myself busy. I always hang out with my family and friends and my dogs. Go to the beach. Go swimming. Go get exercise. Go on a hike.

Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States.

I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics

What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"