I always said this and the people think it's a cute answer, but I say we have always been in the system and that's why we fight because we don't like the system. We are trying to transform it.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.

You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.