I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?