What we mean by integration is not to be with them (whites) but to have what they have.

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.

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

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.

Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youthWhy?-Isn't it gorgeous?

I give you my love & my luck. Don't throw either away.

To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

Of course, you're always going to be biased but Submarine was amazing and I'm not surprised that people liked it.