What time is it on the clock of the world?

When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way down. A few years after that, if you threw a stone in the air it'd hit an abandoned house or a vacant lot on its way down. And most people saw those vacant lots as blight. But meanwhile during World War II, blacks had moved from the South to the North. And they saw these vacant lots as places where you could grow food for the community. And so urban agriculture was born.

Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

I think we have to rethink the concept of “leader.” 'Cause “leader” implies “follower.” And, so many- not so many, but I think we need to appropriate, embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for.

A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.

Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.

The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?