Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

Why I can't stand this phrase about I don't have any permanent enemies, any permanent friends, only permanent interests. I can't stand that. It's a matter of principles. What kind of integrity, what kind of morality do you have?

To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.

When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.