Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away!

God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight.

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.

When people have a sense of our military capability, nobody will ever dare to cast an evil eye on our nation.

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.