On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.