To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.