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

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

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

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.