This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

Because Dr. King was human and not divine - although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man - and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.