My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks who were not scared. I was behind the president this time. When I was a little boy and ran around with trifling dudes, I was the only one scared of dogs. And I was bitten 14 times! Dogs smell scared. And that's the same thing with people: 50 years ago they smelled fear. There was no fear this time.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

The free man is the man with no fears.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.