When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.

Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.

For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much greater than Whites. Today, there is less overt racism, but the economic injustices create an "institutional racism" which exists even while more Blacks are in high places, such as Condoleeza Rice in Bush's Administration and Obama running for President.