The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

The case for interconnectedness between conscious human lives is hard to deny.

This is unacceptable! We’re English, damn it! We know how to build things where they shouldn't be! - Governor Dewar

Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.