Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it.

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!