People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.

Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

My choice is what I choose to do, And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.Your choice is who you choose to be, And if you're causin' no harm, then you're alright with me.

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.

Deciding taste is egotistical, but that's how taste is established, by somebody having the courage to say, 'I don't want to sell that.'

He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.

But we were talking about me and my problems." Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely. "I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.